I decided to have a party. Seven years ago today I decided to finally gird up my loins, throw caution to the wind, (plus a bunch of other cliches)...
...and start a blog.
Here's what a wrote lo those many years ago:
"This summer I discovered the... mom-blog world. Or at least a fun little fraction of it. And it was amazing to discover other people like me!! Other moms who are home with busy little kids who still find time to quilt and sew! It was like when Dorothy walks out of her little black and white Kansas cabin into the technicolor land of Oz. I was so inspired by so many other women! When my husband came home, I told him I felt like I’d found a ton of new friends. So I’m taking the plunge and starting my own..."
I still remember saying that to my husband about feeling like I'd found a bunch of new friends, and he looked at me, a little worried about my mental health. And my "imaginary" friends. lol.
And as I look back at what has happened and evolved over those 7 years, I'm a little blown away. (Not only by how much my life has changed since then - we live in a different house, my kids are a lot bigger and I now have a lot less hair and step on a lot fewer toy cars. And, embarrassingly, I probably have a lot more fabric. *cringe* But I'm working on that!)
I am also blown away by how many opportunities and connections have come into my life that never would have happened if I hadn't just jumped in. As I look back at those early blog posts, it was all SO far from perfect, a little scattered and random, my photography was pretty pathetic, and I was still trying to find my voice.
But I'm SO GLAD I DID IT.
The best part of this whole adventure is the real-life connections and friends I've made along the way - that I never would have met if I hadn't tried something scary. Those imaginary friends have become real-life friends!
(Here are a few images from when I was working on some of those earliest tutorials...)
So a few great lessons here:
- When facing something outside your comfort zone: Just jump in. Do it. Plug your nose and close your eyes if you have to, but jump!
- Done is better than perfect. Don't wait until you've got it all figured out. Give yourself room to grow along the way.
And most of all, I wouldn't be here without you nice people who stop by to visit. I'm especially thankful to those who leave such kind and encouraging comments when you have a minute. (I know life is busy!)
So to celebrate, I thought would be fun to giveaway a whole bunch of stuff, including giveaways of some of my very favorite things from generous sponsors and 7 curated bundles and goodies from me. A huge thank you to my generous sponsors for making this happen!! Here are the goods:
From Riley Blake/Penny Rose Fabrics - a fat Quarter Bundle of brand new upcoming collection, Church Ladies' Aprons - a fun colorful, 50's inspired collection.
An Ebook of your choice from Martingale/That Patchwork Place.
From Aurifil this collection of Pat Sloan's Perfect Box of Neutrals - 12 spools of 50 wt thread. My favorite kind!
From Olfa a Splash rotary cutter and a brand new 12" x 17" fold-in-half cutting mat - easy to store and perfect to fold up and take with you to your next sewing retreat. So nifty!!
Fabricworm, online fabric retailer, is giving away a fat quarter bundle of Homestead by Emily Isabella.
Westwood Acres fabrics, purveyor of amazing fabric bundles, is giving away two of their custom curated Low Volume bundles.
From Quilty Box - a September gift box full of goodies including Erin Cox's Sweet Tweets book, a Cotton+Steel Picnic charm pack, two spools of Konfetti Wonderfil Threads, and a Sugar'n Cream yarn in Robin's Egg.
From the Fat Quarter Shop 7 Prizes (how fun is that?) including a Fat Quarter Style book, a Precut Primer book, a Quilted Living Book, Macarron Patchwork Set/Aurfil thread collection, Biscotti Finishing Set/Aurfil floss collection, Alphabitties, and a Jolly Bar precut collection.
I'll also be putting together 7 packages of goodies from this pile of loot.
To enter to win these prizes, leave a comment on this post. And if you like, tell me something you'd love to see on this blog in the future. Winners will be selected randomly from comments on this post, as well as blog posts over the previous month. Giveaway ends Tuesday, October 13 at midnight MST.
Finally, one more thank you for the support and encouragement you've generously shown me over the past 7 years. For visiting this blog, or buying a pattern, or supporting my sponsors, I truly thank you. (or for voting for me in the Bloglovin' awards earlier last month. I did not win, but the kind support from so many of you, meant so much. Heck, just to be nominated in the first place, was pretty cool!)
As an added thank you, all of my PDF patterns in my pattern shop are 50% off for the next 7 days with code 7YEARS at check out.
Thank you, thank you. Sending love and well-wishes and happy quilting vibes to all of you. xoxoxo
POST EDIT: Giveaway closed. I apologize for the delay announcing winners. We had a broken collar-bone at our house right before Fall Break from school. Winners will be announced Wednesday, Oct 21. Thanks for your patience!
WINNERS!
Riley Blake Bundle: Melissa
Congratulations! I really enjoy reading your blog. Your style and fabric selection really appeals to me and I get very inspired reading it. I’ve been debating starting a blog for the last 6 months (social media kind on terrifies me) but hearing how much you’ve enjoyed it is definitely encouraging!
Ebook from Martingale/That Patchwork Place
Happy Anniversary – goes to show how a little inspiration can turn into a dream come true! Thanks for great tutorials and easy to follow instructions. Your color choices match my same interests! Here’s to many more years to come!
Aurifil Thread Pat Sloan Neutrals box
I started reading quilting blogs around 07-08, when my son was in elementary school. It’s wonderful to find people who enjoy the same things, like friends form all over the world. My favorite part of reading blogs is tutorials and to realize that there are many different ways to accomplish the same things. I LOVE your the last photo of you sewing with you little ones feet sticking out under the table with cars all around. ?That brings back so many memories of my son and sewing. Please keep up the great blogging, for so many of us this is what keeps us connected to the quilting world. Thank you for giving us a place to look forward to going for a quilting break. ;-> Toni Anne
Olfa Cutting mat and Rotary Cutter:
I have enjoyed reading your blog because you are down to earth, kind and don’t seem to be caught up in some of the catty things that others in the quilting world are caught up in. Congrats on the blog-iversary!
Fat Quarter Shop bundle:
Amy – yours is the first blog I started following, and I have loved every post. Besides sharing tutorials and tips with all of us, you have generously answered specific questions I have emailed to you when working on one of your designs. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging, and I look forward to many more years of posts from you. Thank you for all you do for the quilting community!
Homestead FQ Bundle from Fabricworm
Seven years! Woot! Congratulations, what an accomplishment! I really enjoy following your blog. Your voice seems true and sincere. I enjoy seeing the evolution of your projects and learning about new techniques from you. Looking forward to seven more years!
Westwood Acres bundles:
Wow, 7 years! Amazing! I love the tutorials you have, especially the Quilting 101 Series, and I feel like your tips have helped me be a better sewist, as well as quilter.
Happy blog anniversary! Your blog was the very first blog of any kind I started reading several years ago. You are always so down to earth and make no bones about trying to juggle home, husband, kids, quilting, church, and just life. I love your honesty and your beautiful sewing. thank you for all you share as it helps all of us know that life doesn’t have to be a struggle.
It’s people like you who have enriched my retirement and kept me company. Thank you.
Yay seven years! I love reading your blog, and have just started a quilt from your book! As a mom of two young kids (3 years and 5 months) I really love the “quickness” of your patterns. They allow me to have a creative outlet but don’t take up all of my limited spare time!
Congratulations on seven years! That’s amazing. I remember meeting you at American Quilting at their Moonlight Madness sale a few years ago, when I bought one of your patterns to make a quilt kit for my mom for Christmas. She finally finished it a few weeks ago. Love your blog!
I never expect to win these giveaways (although 7 is my lucky number!) but I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your blog. I don’t know how I found you and I am a fairly new follower . . . both here and on Facebook. You’ve inspired me to get back into making quilts (I have already utilized a couple of your tutorials) and I am seriously considering revving up my old blog. I’ve missed it! Congratulations on your milestone! I love seeing creative women gain success!
7 years? That’s amazing! Congratulations! One thing that helps me connect with a blog is when you talk about how you fit in quilting and pattern making and everything else when you have family, kids, husband, etc. I love when you post about how your include your kids, stuff like that.
You don’t know me, but you taught me to quilt! After my husband died 6 years ago, I was looking for a new creative outlet. I had sewn for more years than I can remember, but had never quilted. I set out looking for quilt instruction online and found your blog. Finding this new craft helped me with my grief, and gave me something new to focus on. Later, I participated in your Virtual Quilting Bee (and would love to do another!). Keep up the good work. You never know how you can affect someone’s life.
I laughed right out loud when you said imaginary friends. Love the way you wright..lets your readers get to know you. Being a new self taught sewer I rely on blogs like yours to help me learn, so thank you for all the hard work! Oh how I could really use these prizes, starting to sew is expensive.. Slowly getting supplies on a never ending list , lol. Congratulations on your nomination, well deserved!
Anne Marie
Congrats to you - I love your blog and all your projects. You make me feel like I am right there with you - you are a person I can so relate to! I would love to see more baby quilts. I can never make enough quilts for the little ones in my life.
Joan
Thanks for taking the plunge "7" years ago! Your quilts inspire so many of us as well as your encouragement along the way. I truly enjoy your sharing of your vacation pics and travel tips. May you continue on to quilt and share your passion with us all.
Carah
I am new to quilting and your blog, both are great. Happy birthday!
Teresa @Aurea's Kitchen
Happy blogiversary!! I love to read about how much you improve and how your blog grew. Thanks for this giveaway
Marion
I am constantly amazed and inspired by the ideas i see on your blog. One thing I love about the blog is that you are an encourager for someone like me, learning to quilt!
Kirsty@Bonjour
Congratulations on 7 years. That's a long time! No 7 yr itch for you, eh? I am so glad you took the plunge 7 yrs ago and fought through the doubts of starting - I was exactly the same. Funny how I feared 'what will people say' - of course I know now that no one gave a 'you know what' about my blog so I don't know what I was worried about. Good luck for the next 7 years - I'd love to see more of the same, honestly, I love what you do just as you are. Although, perhaps more Europe photos....off you go!
Angie
Wow! Seven years! I just starting quilting again, quilted in the late 80s. I love your blog, Your advise is so current and clear and helpful. That is the true gift of your blog!
Dianne
Wow what a give away! I would love to see more sew along projects.
Martina
Happy blogiversary! What a fund way to celebrate! And I really loved to read about your start.
As I have no quilting buddies in reality here close by i always enjoy some great tipps which make quilting easier and even more fun!
Hugs from Switzerland
Martina
Sharon Gibson
Hi Amy, your blog was the first one that I read and I have been hooked ever since. Your quilts are beautiful. I am busy with one of your scrap buster quilts, having great fun with it. Thank you for the chance at the giveaway, its fantastic. Keep up the good work. Take care Sharon x
Michelle
happy anniversary!
HEide
Congrats, Love reading your blog! What a super giveaway, thanks for the chance. Cheers to many more years of inspiration!
erin
Congrats on 7 years of blogging! No need to put me in the giveaway - I just wanted to thank you for the continuous inspiration.
Dana
I've caught the quilting fever and am so inspired by the things I read on your blog. Thank you for sharing your ideas and projects.
Barb@witsend
Wow, 7 years is a long time to stay comitted - nicely done! Thanks for the opportunity to enter such a generous contest.
Cris
A milestone to celebrate! I like reading about the intersection of your quilting and life. Tutorials are always welcome, but sharing the visual, creative journey is why I read your blog.
Dorian
Happy birthday! Seven years is a long time fora blog, especially now a days with all the other social mediums. I enjoy your posts, I enjoy looking at the fabric your working with and the nice patterns you make. I hope you continue on your blog, as it's a nice place to come and visit.
Denise
Wow that's quite a celebration! I love seeing tutorials. Your blog is great for beginners and advanced. Thanks and congratulations!
Denise
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Southern Gal
Ha! Imaginary friends. 😉 I think many husbands call our blog friends that. I finally met a few in person and it's fabulous! And so is this giveaway! Such generosity! Happy blogiversary to you. I love your advice to just jump in, done is better than perfect. (I'm a PPP - procrastinating perfectionist pack rat, so I need those nudges frequently.) Thanks!
Andrea_R
Love your blog! Blogging regularly is hard work. Not sure I want to see more of anything specific - just MORE. 🙂
Lori
Congratulations and thanks for a chance to win.
Diana c
Happy Blogiversary! I just wanted to share that I found your blog as a new quilter and it was a valuable resource for me. I've loved your tutorials and have learned so much. Thanks for all that you do!
Paula
Congrats on the blogiversary. What a really great milestone. Thanks for an amazine celebratory giveaway and looking forward to many more years of following your blog.
Gigi Voegeli
I love your blog and look forward to hearing from you in the morning when I get up. You seem to have endless energy and enthusiasm (I know that's probably not an every day thing, but you do project it). Maybe another quiltalong? Or a yearly quiltalong? I (just) finished the churn dash one and do love it! The directions were wonderful. Thanks and happy anniversary!
Sarah
Congrats on the blogiversary! It was fun to read how you began. 🙂
Alyson
Congrats! I would love to read about any secrets to cutting/sewing etc that improve the "workflow" of quilting.
Teri
Happy blogiversary. I am glad you started your blog because I enjoy reading what you share with your readers and learning from your tutorials.
Scorpie
Congrats on your 7th blogaversary. Blogging IS hard work. Just keep on keeping on~you don't need to change your blog. It's good the way it is. I have nothing but admiration for you and the other bloggers that have small children and still find the time to quilt. Thanks for the chance to win one of these prizes~would love to win the thread. I have turned into a thread junkie.
Roberta DiLeo
Congratulations! I stumbled upon your blog just earlier this year, as I was trying to find more tips and inspiration while hoping to grow as a quilter. So glad I did, I love getting to see what you're working on!
Margaret
Like you, I took the plunge to start a blog and founf a whole world out there of like minded people. My awakening came at retirement, but it's never too late! Keep up all your fabulous creativity.
Anita
Happy Blogiversary!
You have a great blog, and I would like to see more tutorials in the future.
Adana
I love reading your blog! I look forward to each new post. I wouldn't change a thing. Thanks for inspiring me to do more of what I love.
Rike
Wow! 7 years already over! Congratulations and thank you for the many posts and patterns!
And thank you, too, for this amazing giveaways!!!
Greetings, Rike
Julie Wagner
Hi Amy,
I love your blog, I have your book and have used your patterns. You are very "real" as you write, and I appreciate that. Thanks also for sharing glimpses into your life.
What an amazing giveaway! Thank you for the chance to enter!
Beverly
Congratulations on 7 years! Your wonderful tutorials are so helpful to those of us who are not long-time quilters. I find myself watching them over and over (especially the binding tutorial). Your blog is to a quilter what a dictionary is to a writer.
MaryAnn
I really enjoy reading your blog. I love your sense of color and adventure. Keep up the good work!
amy
Congratulations! I enjoy your blog so very much- hope you continue for years to come.
Love all the tutorials, keep them coming. They are so helpful to beginners like me.
Betsy
I already love your blog as it is Amy.
Elke Scharmer
Congratulations! I like your blog and your patterns. I am glad about every post from You.
Greetings from Germany
Elke
kathyinmn
7 years? That's amazing! Congratulations! One thing that helps me connect with a blog is when you talk about how you fit in quilting and pattern making and everything else when you have family, kids, husband, etc. I love when you post about how your include your kids, stuff like that.
Bobbie Weidner
You do amazing work! I love how you and your "imaginary" friends have blown a breath of fresh air into the quilting world. Keep up the good work. Thanks!
Elysa
I just found your blog about a month ago, but I love your patterns! I think I want way more of them than I have time to actually create 🙂
Elizabeth Di Battista
Happy Blogiversary. What I love about your blog is that it provides a wealth of quilting information. If I get stuck on a project or I need inspiration for the next I always head to your blog. Thanks.
kellylynn
Wow! Congratulations on 7 years. That is amazing!
Renea
Congratulations on your Blogversary. I have been reading your blog for a few years now and thoroughly enjoy it. Thanks for all the inspiration you have spread for the quilting world. Also, thanks for all the generous giveaway's. Good luck to everyone!
Emily C
Congratulations. 7 Years is a wonderful milestone! You have picked one of everything that I would have picked. How cool is that. Open a bottle of wine and toast another 7 years!
Miranda roSa
Congrats! I'm relatively new to your blog. Love it!
Meg
Happy anniversary! I read your blog with my coffee every morning - a great way to start my day. I love your quilts; perhaps a quilt along?
Margaret
Amy, I've been reading your blog for quite a few years. I first found your blog back when I was just starting to learn how to quilt and you had a tutorial, many tutorials, about quilting basics. And at that point I realized you were a kind and generous woman and I have been reading your blog ever since. I feel that I have watched you grow and develop in your art. I was so thrilled for you when you published your book. Congratulations on reaching seven years blogging. It's been fun.
Christine wilde
I love your blog. I love the "tone" of it, like I listening to one of my friends talk. I would love to see more lap quilts. I am always looking for new patterns to make for my friends and family, and smaller decorative quilts are my thing. Thanks and here's to the next 7 years!
Nancy
Congratulations!! I read every blog post!! I love quilting and am always watching for either scrap quilts (they seem to multiply daily!!) or unique color combinations. Hope you have many more years of blogging in your future!!
Valerie
happy anniversary! I have to say I love your patterns and have several. What fun and wonderful prizes--now I may need to go pattern shopping!!
Gail auen
Wow, seven years blogging, and I have problems finding time to write once a week. Congratulations and thank you for organizing this give-away.
Gloria
Congratulations and happy anniversary! I love your blog and want to see more of the same. I especially like the helpful tips and tutorials. Thanks for the give-away --- I like those too!
Leah
Wow - 7 years of blogging is a big accomplishment! I love seeing your patterns and finding out about awesome new fabrics from your blog.
Shirley
I look forward to your posts. You are both generous and inspiring.
Geraldine
I love your blog. And I love those little tiny feet poking out from under the table. Keeping it real!
Michelle
Congratulations on 7 years! And thank you for the opportunity to win in such a generous giveaway.
kelly
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog! As far as what I'd like to see, I learn so much here, so I guess more of all your tips and tutorials would be great!
kathy Epperly
Congratulations on reaching your seven year milestone! I really enjoy reading your blog. It is so wonderful so see such renewed interest in sewing these days. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!
Heidi
I always love reading your posts... Your photography is always so pretty 🙂
Melinda Meehan
I laughed right out loud when you said imaginary friends. Love the way you wright..lets your readers get to know you. Being a new self taught sewer I rely on blogs like yours to help me learn, so thank you for all the hard work! Oh how I could really use these prizes, starting to sew is expensive.. Slowly getting supplies on a never ending list , lol. Congratulations on your nomination, well deserved!
Teresa Stanulis
Congratulations on your blog's 7 year anniversary! Those early pictures made me smile, especially your son playing under the table wearing his sunglasses. Cute! I look forward to reading many more blog posts from you in the future!
bobbi dougherty
Congrats! You are an awesome inspiration!
I love the tutes and tips too. Also, anything to use up my scraps!!!! Thanks for the chance 🙂
ShaRon bellerive
Congrats on your seven year anniversary. Very generous giveaways. Love reading your blog.
Peggy Pirillo
Congratulations Amy on 7 years of blogging! You are kind to ask what we want, but it's not really about us, it is your chronicle of life and quilting. We love what you share with us - all of it!
Carole
Congrats!!! you have an awesome blog and i always look forward to seeing what you're making!! i would like to see more scrap projects but something on a smaller scale because well all my scraps don't really coordinate very well cause i buy fabric mainly for specific projects.
Amy Johnson
Congrats on 7 yrs. Love your writing and projects! Thanks for giving and sharing your time, talent and inspiration.
Elizabeth
Congratulations on your anniversary! Thanks for the lovely giveaways and all of your wonderful posts and patterns.
jackie
Love the blog and your lovely quilts and that you share your creative trip. looking forward to at least 7 more!!!! congrats!
Bev
Love your blog, congrats!!
Grace
Congratulations Amy,
Yours was the first blog I followed 6 1/2 years ago. You provided me with lots of inspiration and led me into this world of blogs. So happy for all your successes for you deserve all you've achieved. Your positive and real stories, not to mention awesome projects, kept me reading!
Cindy Naglee
Congratulations Amy! I love your blog and I check it every day to see if there's something new. You are an inspiration to me and many others. Your faith shines through in your writing. I love your
practicality and your tutorials! Keep going!
Jodi Watson
Wow!! Happy Blog Anniversary! Love looking through and seeing your older posts, not sure what I would like to see as you pretty much cover it all throughout. 🙂 Thank you for the chance! 🙂
Susan
OMG, the prizes are as awesome as your blog. I love What you share, tutorials, projects and your sweet family. Follow your heart, do what feels right. You don't need to change a thing!
Judy Hudgins
Think you are doing a great job. And love the gifts!
Carolyn Sands
Congratulations on your seven year anniversary. Would love to hear your thoughts on your design process. What inspires you and where you begin. Thank you for a chance at a great giveaway!
Erin Park
Happy blog-iversary! I would love to see a quilt a long or something related to paper piecing.
Natascha
Congratulations! Wow 7 years! That is a long time! I found your blog a few weeks ago but I already love it! Your quilts are so beautyful! Your tutorial "How to make a Quilt from start to finish" helped me a lot.
I like your blog as it is and want to see more of the same. Thanks for the amazing giveaway!
Brita
Wow, congrats! Love your blog, and discover more things, patterns and fabrics, to add to my list. Thank you (I think) ?
Miranda e
So wonderful! To be perfectly honest, I love to see less perfection! I appreciate when it gets 'real'. And I adore the little feet sticking out from under your sewing table on your tutorial picture. That's real life! ?
krislovesfabric
Congrats, what great prizes...many of these I am seeing here for the first time!! I have enjoyed following you, love your tutorials!
dolores
Congrats real life buddy!;) I was thinking..since there are tons of quilts shops around you it would be fun to have little tours. I always love when you share your travels!:)
E. A.
Congrats! Finding your blog two and a half years ago and following your tutorials allowed me to make my first quilt and introduced me into this beautiful community!
E. A.
Congrats! Yours was the first quilt blog I found!
Ros
How great is it to have leapt and how far it has taken you Amy! I have read your blog so often and have been creatively by it. thank you for sharing your life! Cheers Amy....here's to the next 7! May they be filled with the abundance you so richly deserve....I agree...a quilt a long would be fun....
Sigi G
Wonderful milestone, Amy!! Congratulations! You have a special place in my heart, as you were one of the first to encourage me with my quilts. Without that, I'm not sure if I would have persevered to the level I am at right now. So Thank You for that, from the bottom of my heart. Thank You also for the chance at all these wonderful giveaways :)!
becky S
Wow, congrats on seven years! I enjoy reading your blog and love when you post tutorials. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Kathe G
Congratulations!! I've enjoyed your blog over the years. You were one of the first that showed there was another style in quilting. Here's to another 7 and more years!
Sharon Hughson
Conrats o your milestone with the blog. I love seeing all the quilts you design. Love the giveaways! Love the blog.
Debrafrommd
Here is to the next seven years! I love reading your blog.
Terri van Gulik
Congraturlations on blogging for 7 years. I have got into quilting about 4 years ago, and yours is one of the first blogs I followed. I love seeing what you are working on, and the fabric selections you make.
Diann bottrell
Congratulations in your anniversary! Seven years is definitely a long time to stick with it, but we're all so glad you did! I enjoy all of your posts, including the ones about your family.
Carol
Happy anniversary! Thank you for your inspiring tutorials, and your quilts are beautiful! Thank you for a wonderful giveaway!
Lisa
Congratulations on 7 years! Yours was one of the first quilt blogs I found and I've been hooked ever since! I think your Christmas quilt was one of the first quilts I made and I've had to make it a few more times for friends. Keep doing what you do, always glad to see a new post from you pop up.
Maye
I always enjoy your blog and certainly get a lot of inspiration. Looking at your fabric selections has made me a lot more adventurous. Congratulations .
Sally
Congrats on your blog anniversary and thanks for sharing your quilting adventures.
Laurie
Congratulations on seven years. And looking forward to the next seven. I love your blog!
Debbie
This is one of my favorite blogs. Congratulations on seven years. I understand the feeling of finding this blog world.
Ben
What a great blog you've developed! Thanks for the grand giveaway.
Ellen Giglia
Congratulations! I'm a new quilter who is inspired by your blog posts. Thanks for all your efforts.
MISCHELLE
Amy, Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! You have done some pretty amazing things in that time. Thanks for all your time and effort you have put into this. I have learned a lot from you. Your blog was the first quilting blog I stayed to read and follow.
Thanks for the chance to win something,
Mischelle
Cindy
You do good work. Thanks for all your encouragement to all the rest of us.
Kristy
How lovely to read more about how it all started for you! And I love the sweet "beginnings" pictures.....so very similar to my sewing life even now! 🙂 Congrats to you and thank you so very much for the chance at any of the lovely prizes you are sharing! Best to you as you continue blogging.....you have a blog I thoroughly enjoy reading and tutorials I regularly return to.
Audrey
Congratulations on your milestone in the blogging world. Yours is a blog I enjoy following very much. Thank you for sharing your thoughts expertise, trials and encouragement. This is an awesome collection of giveaways. Blog on.
AJ
Happy anniversary!
Janelle Thietje-Dunn
Wowy! What an amazing give-a-way! congratulations on your anniversary - it's quite an accomplishment. I don't actually have the attention span to stick with anything for 7 yrs. I love your work. It speaks to my artistic heart. Keep up the great work.
Toni Anne Potter
I started reading quilting blogs around 07-08, when my son was in elementary school. It's wonderful to find people who enjoy the same things, like friends form all over the world. My favorite part of reading blogs is tutorials and to realize that there are many different ways to accomplish the same things. I LOVE your the last photo of you sewing with you little ones feet sticking out under the table with cars all around. ?That brings back so many memories of my son and sewing. Please keep up the great blogging, for so many of us this is what keeps us connected to the quilting world. Thank you for giving us a place to look forward to going for a quilting break. ;-> Toni Anne
Cynthia
Congratulations and thanks for all your hard work in sharing your quit life.
Katie Belle
Hi Amy! Thank you for sharing your quilting with all of us. Your work is an inspiration to many, and my quilting wouldn't be the same without you!
This summer I shared your post about your visit to Rocky Mountain Quilts with my parents, and while vacationing in Maine they visited the shop and purchased a gorgeous set of 1930's Dresden Plate blocks which they gifted to me. 🙂 Not sure exactly what to do with the blocks, I turned to your blog again and found your Vintage-Inspired Dresden Plate Quilt. Using your quilt as my inspiration, I pieced a similar quilt top, and I couldn't be happier with the results! Now I'm looking for a long arm quilter. Any recommendations?
Katie Belle
To clarify, I'm looking for a custom long arm quilter. I have two great ladies who I use for edge to edge pantograph quilting, but my Vintage Dresden Plate quilt is calling for custom quilting!
Amy Smart
I use Melissa from Sew Shabby Quilting (www.sewshabbyquilting.com). She has become really good at custom work. I've had her quilt two Dresden Plate quilts and I love what she's done!
Nancy Stone
I am new to your blog and I have enjoyed going back to your previous posts and reading about your quilts and quilting. Your quilts are beautiful and inspiring. Congratulations on seven years.
Shirley
I enjoy you blog very much. Congratulations on your seventh anniversary.
Lori
Congratulations! And thank you sharing your work and life. You are on my favorites list.
Pam Forgerson
I have been enjoying your blog for 5 years. Congratulations
CherylB
YOU are the reason I'm starting my 7th QUILT
Having been a seamstress for 30 years...I got an itch to try a quilt but did not know where to start.....TA DA.....I found YOU and your blog and I jumped in and haven't looked back since last Fall.......I absolutely love the process start to finish....
Your tutorials, beautiful photographs...all inspiring...all I could think of is more tutorials (printable)
Thank you Amy, I check you out daily and you are my go-to
Debra holster
You don't know me, but you taught me to quilt! After my husband died 6 years ago, I was looking for a new creative outlet. I had sewn for more years than I can remember, but had never quilted. I set out looking for quilt instruction online and found your blog. Finding this new craft helped me with my grief, and gave me something new to focus on. Later, I participated in your Virtual Quilting Bee (and would love to do another!). Keep up the good work. You never know how you can affect someone's life.
Amy Smart
Oh Debra. That just makes my day to read this. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm so sorry for your loss - I can't imagine the feelings of grief. I'm so glad you found something to help fill that void a little bit. Much love! xoxo
CarolD
CONGRATULATIONS!!! I love reading your blog and look forward to more 🙂
And I'm using your quote "Done is better than perfect." That really speaks to me.
Blessings.
Kristen
I'm so grateful that you've taken the time to write this blog. I find your work so inspiring, and really appreciate everything you give to the quilting community.
Happy Blogiversary!
Kristine
Congratulations and happy anniversary! I've loved reading your blog and am glad you took the plunge and opened yourself up to the world. And I'm glad you've been so successful. Thanks for hosting the giveaway to pass on the success!
Sarah french
Congrats! I always enjoy reading your blog.
Allison
Congratulations Amy! The very first quilt I made was from one of YOUR tutorials. That quilt gave me the confidence to keep doing something that I love.
Lisa McGriff
Such a great accomplishment! What an amazing collection of prizes as well. I would love to see more baby quilts! I seem to make a lot of those.
Ruth m
Happy anniversary! I've made some great friends through quilting. Everyone is so friendly and helpful.
Tracey
Thanks for this giveaway! I enjoy everything about your blog, but aside from all of your quilty posts, I like your vacation photos, too. Thanks again.
Dem malin
Amy - congratulations on 7 years of wonderful quilting and sewing. I first found you on Craftsy - Hop Scotch Quilting Workshop which opened up a whole new world of creativity for me. Then I found your blog and graduated to IG from there. Not only have you been a creative inspiration but you've unintentionally made me better with social media platforms. Yay! I hardly ever comment on a blog but you are the first designer I started following and kept following. I know we all look forward to the next 7 for sure ?. Again congratulations!
Becca
Congratulations on seven years! That's amazing. I remember meeting you at American Quilting at their Moonlight Madness sale a few years ago, when I bought one of your patterns to make a quilt kit for my mom for Christmas. She finally finished it a few weeks ago. Love your blog!
Vikki
Congratulations. I love your blog and its what starting me learning to quilt!
Laura valdez
Ihaven't been following the whole 7 years but am so thrilled to have found your blog. Love the tutorials, the patterns, the fabrics and going wherever you go.
Jocelyn
You are one talented and creative lady. And so fortunate to have found your niche. I've been following you for many years and have enjoyed watching you grow. Thanks for the fabulous and SO generous giveaways! Happy Blogiversary!
Amanda b
I am so happy to have stumbled across your blog. You've truly been an inspiration in my own quilting and I'm always excited to see what comes next.
Erica
HI! I just started my blog this year! It has been a LOT of fun! I'd love to see more tutorials. I always love your tutorials.
Thanks for always sharing!
Faye
I just checked out all of your quilts on you pinterest page... what an awesome portfolio of sewing beauty! For me, I love lots of pictures and tutorials on blogs. I come to blogs for inspiration and for help when I'm stuck. I think your blog is really well organized, making it easy to look at all you have done, find past tutorials, etc., and that means a lot to me! Congratulations on 7 years of blogging -- it is really quite an accomplishment!
Janine
Wow, that's a lot of goodies 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win.
Becky
I'm so glad you did start a blog! Thanks for sharing your talent!
Renee
Congratulations on seven years! I appreciate the work you put into your blog.
Summer
I liked reading about your early days of blogging. I could go back and browse through previous posts, but let's make it easy on all of us. If you are crunched for time, simply refer us to an earlier post and comment on how things have changed for you since then. For example, an older post about accurate cutting - do you still cut fabric the same way or have you found some useful shortcuts? I just want to learn from your experiences!
c
After a decade long pause, I finally got back to quilting again. So glad I found quilting blogs Your's included because it is a resource that was not available when I was quilting years ago. It is the wonderful inspiration that motivates me to create. Love hearing about the ups and downs in the process. Tutorials and quilt-a-longs are fun to get involved in with others cause I learn so much and find solutions and empathy. It is fun growing with you. You have some yummy gifts, Hope to win. C
Christine sherman
A couple of the best friends I have (and never met in person) are from quilting and blogging. It truly is a blessing! Congrats on 7 years 🙂
Carol
Congrats! I Love your blog!!! I love the photos of when you first started blogging.
Evelyn
Congratulations! Just now getting back into quilting after about a 15 year hiatus. Stumbled across your blog several months ago and it's been an inspiration to this old quilter.
Heather
Congrats! 7 years... That is amazing!!
Jamie
Wow!!!!! What a fun way to celebrate! Your blog is one of my top of all time. I love seeing finished projects and hope you have another book in the works:)
carol n
7 years, congrats! And thanks for the chance to win some of the great goodies!!
Lois Hendrickson
Congrats on your 7 years. I just love reading blogs for inspiration.
Sandy t
Happy anniversary I love your blog thanks for the giveaway .
Elaine Walker
I am so glad I found your blog. My daughter saw a quilt she liked on Pinterest . So I started following your Blog and ordered the book the pattern was in. I have made three quilts from that book!!!! Anyway LOVE your blog and congrats on your fiest seven years.
Jodi
congrats on 7 years! I would love to see more quilt-as-you go projects on the blog. 🙂
Lori Klopfenstein
Congrats - I love tutorials but I love your blog already!
Karen B.
Amy, I just discovered your website a few months ago. I'm fairly new to quilting and love the diversity of your
patterns. I'm getting a lot of inspiration! Thank you.
Dede Bliven
Wow! Congrats! I have been so inspired from your blogs and now I have just found my favorite image: I imagine it was an early picture with a square of fabric (I have the same fabric with brown background) and a pair of little toes hiding from under the sewing table. Thank you so much for all the information and help. You even answer emails-are you sure there isn't a "s" underneath you shirt for "superlady"? I love the blog-everything: pictures of projects, confessions about WIPs, but I still struggle with color so anything you write about fabric choice is read and reread by me! Thank you so much for your time and your classy blog! I am lucky to start my day with my "imaginary" mentor!
Danette
Happy 7 years! I have been sewing/quilting for about 10 years now, but only started my blog about 1 1/2 years ago. I probably didn't even know what a blog was. Love reading your blog and I have sewn your basket tutorial - twice. It turned out so cute. Thank you, peterstankovich@comcast.net
Julie J.
Love the blog, I like all of the ideas and inspiration on the blog!
Lynnet H
Happy Anniversary! I've been a Silent follower, gleaming inspiration and tons of helps! I love how you encourage us to not wait till it's perfect. Perfection is not a friend of mine!
Kristin S
I love the block you posted for the 2012 Bloggers Block of the month. I have an entire quilt top of these blocks in 30's prints patiently waiting to be hand quilted.
Thanks for the chance to win!
pAULETTE
So blessed to be one of your imaginary friends and fellow quilt lover.
Keep doing what you are doing and jumping in to try new things and then sharing with us.
Kimberly
Happy blogiversary!! I'm new to the quilting scene, but I've so enjoying reading your blog and following your quilting adventures! I can't wait to see what the next seven years (and more!) hold!
Kate
Congratulations! Thanks for hosting such a wonderful giveaway.
Sherry
Congratulations on 7 years. Wow, what wonderful giveaways. I always enjoy seeing new spins on quilting.
Merlin Whitman
Happy Blogiversary!! I think what i love most about your blog is your use of colour and negative space in your quilts.
Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us!
Laurie
I'm very thankful you started this Blog 7 years ago...you are a wonderful inspiration!
Beverly
Congratulations on 7 years! I don't remember how I first stumbled upon your blog, but it is one of my favorites.
Carolyn
Yay! 7 years! Well done, you 🙂 I'd love to see some posts about your process for writing/planning/putting together a pattern. I tend to just wing things and am not even sure how to go about being organized to get that done.
KathyF
Every day that I open your blog,
I have to smile(because your smiling} & always say the same thing, I love your blog.
I'm kinda quiet(not in person) on the blogs
I would love to see anything that you throw out there, I read it all. I could use some
cutting instructions. I'm left handed. And it's a ruff world in a rright hand world. I get so confused in many ways.
Thanks & Happy 7year bog
Kathy
Cathy Wilson
Congratulations! Your blog was one of the first that I started reading when I began quilting a little more than a year ago. I am amazed by all you do with a house full of little people! What a generous giveaway to celebrate! Thanks!
Jan O
Congrats on your blogiversary! Looking forward to sharing the next seven years - and many more - in this quilty blogiverse. You're so right about how online friends become real life friends. Best wishes for your continues blog success!
Anne
Aw, congratulations! I only found your blog a few weeks ago and just love it. I was so happy when the library had your book and now I'm inspired to use 20 Betty Dear fat quarters I bought years ago (I always meant to do a different quilt with the fabric, but so much time has passed that the original plan no longer makes my heart thump, so ...)!
Sharon
Yours is one of my favorite blogs. I would love to see more of the same. What an incredible giveaway! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Patti
Congrats on 7 years! I love following your blog, you offer plenty of inspiration!
Mary
Congratulations! You have a terrific blog. I love the sew a longs. Thanks for the chance to win.
Mary
Allison Erb
Yay seven years! I love reading your blog, and have just started a quilt from your book! As a mom of two young kids (3 years and 5 months) I really love the "quickness" of your patterns. They allow me to have a creative outlet but don't take up all of my limited spare time!
Melanie D
I love reading your blog, though I may not comment a lot. You seem to be very down to earth and friendly. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Amanda
Congratulations on the 7-year blogiversary! I love to read more about color and picking fabric combinations for quilts. 🙂 Thank you so much for the fun giveaway!! xo
Judie Harron
I LOVE YOUR BLOG AMY...I GO TO IT FIRST EVERYTIME I AM LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION. I LOVE YOUR SCRAP BUSTING PATTERNS, IDEAS, ANYTHING ALONG THIS LINE. THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS OFFERINGS AND SPONSOR GIVEAWAYS. PLEASE KNOW MANY IN QUILTLAND LOVE, LOVE, LOVE YOUR SITE.
Tracy
I really love your blog! I check it almost every day and always find inspiration. I would love to see more tutorials, because I am fairly new to quilting and your tutorials are so well done that they make it all seem less intimidating.
Jennifer
Thank you for your blog. I am learning a lot from the posts. I can honestly say that it is the only quilting blog I keep coming back to every week. Congratulations on all of the blessings that jumping into the blogging world has exposed you to.
Judy wilkinson
Thanks for the encouragement to jump in and try new things in life. Your website is great; keep it up!
Judy W
Bunny
I've been a subscriber to your blog for a while, always gleaning loads of inspiration and information. I say keep on doing what you're doing because it's the perfect quilter's blog.
Bettina kelson
Congratulations!!! What a great success! So thankful for all the bloogers. Love to read yours in particular.
Hope you keep going many more years.
Happy quilting!
bekki
Congrats on your blogiversary. How nice to be able to look back on so much and so much achievement.
Susan in dublin
Congrats on your seven years! I've been reading your blog for over a year and enjoy the way you share while keeping it real. Topics to consider - I would suggest that you talk a bit about how you approach color and fabric selection, before or after deciding on a quilt design.
Would surely love to be one of the winners of the terrific prizes!
Amy
Wow, 7 years! Amazing! I love the tutorials you have, especially the Quilting 101 Series, and I feel like your tips have helped me be a better sewist, as well as quilter.
One thing I would like to see are tips for layering quilts. I can never get the layers tight enough that there aren't wrinkles in them when I put them together. I have tried taping the bottom layer to the floor to hold it tight, but still have struggles.
Amy
Mom C
Isn't life grand. Congrats on 7 years of pushing the limits and challenging yourself and blogging about it. Your blog is a joy to read. congrats and keep on keeping on. I hope you continue for many years. Thanks.
Jodie
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging!
Linda Brown
Congrats on your Anniversary....
Clara Chandler
I've been following your blog for some time and enjoy seeing all your projects. What inspiration!! Congratulations on the 7 year anniversary! May you continue to share your creativity and sewing tips with all of us. Thank you for the sale on your patterns. Thank you for the chance in the giveaways.
Amyc
Wow! Congrats on 7 years of creating an awesome blog. I love everything about it. I wouldn't change a thing.
April
Congratulations on 7 years! Lucky 7! Keep the quilts coming!
shellie
Love your blog. Thank you for sharing. Wow what a lot of stuff to give away! I am going to look for the 50's inspired fabrics, I would like to mix them with my 30's collection for some variety. Wait, maybe I'll win them instead....
quiltingbean1@msn.com
Shena B
Congratulations on your anniversary! It's amazing how much life can change in seven years. I love your blog as it is. You take wonderful pictures (both now and then) and I really like your writing style. I would love to see a kind of behind the scenes look at what it's like to be an author and pattern writer. Keep up the lovely work for the next seven years!
cathyk
Amy, your blog was one of the first ones I started following when I first started quilting in 2011. I loved it (and still do!) because you are so personable and don't mind "keeping it real". Your tutorials have helped me immensely (the border one was INVALUABLE to me when I first started because I had a hard time with them!) and are done very well. Happy Blogiversary!! I look forward to more of your tutorials!
Ruby
Congratulations! That's a wonderful time to have kept a blog running and been very successful at doing so! Your blog was one of the first I read when I got into quilting, and one I turn back to time and time again for inspiration and tutorials on techniques. I wouldn't change a thing about your blog 🙂
Regina
Congratulations on your 7 year blogaversary!!!! I have been reading your blog for about 5 years and have loved your quilting journey! Thanks for sharing your love of quilts with us.
Lauren young
Happy Ann. I am new want to be quilter. Your blog has help me, see where I can create and see how my love of color and for the love of my family. To quilt them all from my heart. Thank you for being there.
Diane W
I LOVE your blog! Starts my day out right! I love your style. I'd love more baby quilts. Ive got grandkids and more coming...I make a quilt for all our newborns. Ive quilted now for 11 years and still am stockpiling fabric. (Closetful)
Jean
Been following your blog for awhile now, and enjoying the fresh new ideas.
Nancy A
Congrats on 7 years! Here's hoping for many more.
Colette
Congrats on 7 years! Your blog is one I check daily. You always have great pictures and I love your bright cheery quilts. As for what I would like to see on the blog...just more of the same great stuff you are doing!
Kim N
Congratulations! I really enjoy your blog and get so much inspiration from it!
Susan ecklund
I have loved your blog since I first read it about two years ago. Now I want to go back to read some of your earliest posts! Thank you for this giveaway and for all your inspiration.
Judy
Follow you on Facebook thanks for the giveaway and helping us with quilting...
Julie Trout
Happy anniversary...love reading your blog! Thanks for a chance to win in this wonderful giveaway!
Denise
Here's hoping the 7 year itch leads to bigger and better opportunities.
Steph Beardsley
Happy 7th anniversary. Or should I say birthday? I'm sure the blog can be like a another child at times! Keep up the good work.
Anne
Congratulations Amy! Time flies by so quickly. It seems you always reach out to your readers in a spirit of friendship. I enjoy your blog so much and refer back to your tute on machine binding a lot. How do you integrate sewing time with family life? I guess I mean time management. Here's to many more years of happy blogging!
Christina M
Congrats on 7 years of blogging! Yours was the first quilting blog I discovered, although I spent several years blogging about card making and stamping and had the same sense of excitement over all of the new friends I made. Now quilting is my go-to creative outlet, but I have so much to learn and appreciate all of your tutorials and tips. Thank you for everything you share with the community!
Kelly LeBarre
Congratulations on 7 years! How very exciting. I have jumped on the blogging world, too. Blogging about quilting, sewing and life. Thank you for being an inspiration.
Sarah
Congrats on 7 years! You have such beautiful projects and I look forward to 7 more years of your creativity.
rENEE
Congrats! Wishing you another 7 years (minimum)! I would like to know if you burry your thread ends when you quilt, and how you do that.
Thank you for these 7 years and the wonderful colourful quilts!
Helen
Congratulations! It takes incredible organization to run a house, business & blog, and still get the many wonderful quilts finished while caring for small children.
Lindsay r
Yours is one of the first quilt and blogs I ever began following. Congrats to 7 years, and you gave wonderful advice for those perfectionists out there!
karen c.
I joined the quilting community a year ago, so have not shared much of your journey but I hope to share 7 more pleasant years reading your blog! Congratulations !!!!
Anne Simonot
Your blog is one of the first I discovered, and since I too have no friends close by who quilt, it was great to know there were others who shared my obsession. I enjoy all your projects, travel photos, whatever. Just keep on doing what you're doing.
Michelle
Oh wow!! What an amazing and sweet thing to do for your readers!! Congrats on 7 years!!!
Erin s
Happy blogiversary!! What a beautiful and generous set of giveaways! I love stopping in on your blog and seeing all the pretty things you are working on. As a new momma it's inspiring to see a Mom making time for what she loves!
Andrea T
Congrats on lucky number 7!
Amanda K
Congratulations! Happy blog-versay!
Lisa McQueeney
Thank you for inspiring those of us who need some inspiration at times! Your projects are beautiful and I appreciate the time you put into your blog!
Lou
Congratulations!!!!! I am a newer following friend:)
Love the ideas and the comfortable reading style like you are talking to me:) Love it!!!
Here's to 7 + more years!!!!
Michelle n
Congratulations on your great 7 years! I love seeing everything you post. But especially the quilts. 🙂
Christine
You do such wonderful work! I'm always inspired and enjoy reading your blog. Congratulations on your seven years!
Nicole
I *just* started a blog of my own a few weeks ago. Congrats to you for seven years! And I like your shorter hair too.
AnneMarie in VA
Congratulations on all those years of (virtually) talking to strangers!! It takes lots of guts, and lots of words, even when you don't feel like using them!!
Kate
Congratulations! What a huge achievement, you should be so proud of yourself (and what amazing sponsors you have! Discovering the online quilting community had just been incredible - the wonders of the Internet huh!?
Glynette
I've followed you for awhile but the not the entire 7 years. Such growth I've seen (sniff) even with the kids! Keep up the good work and thanks for the great giveaway!
Ashley
Congratulations on SEVEN YEARS!!! What an accomplishment! I can't wait to see more of everthing! I always get so inspired when I see your finished quilts!
Di
Congratulations Amy. You have inspired a whole bunch of us. Thank you. Di x
Stephano
7 years is a lot of blog post. Thank you for all the time you have spent teaching us all.
Marcy
Congratulations on 7 years in the blogging world. I have to say that i absolutely love your quilts. I found your blog about 4 years ago. I was drawn to your wonderful use of colors and color combinations. I love to quilt, but was in a pretty small box of what was right and acceptable. Your blog opened my eyes to new color combinations, patterns and ideas.
Thank you so much and here's to another 7 years and more.
linda
HAPPY BLOGVERSARY! Have followed you+enjoyed your Blog for years! i love your blog just as it is !!! Thanks to You+your sponsors for a neat generous giveaway!
carol g
Such a sweet, generous person. Amy, I can always count on you for a smile. I totally consider you one of my invisible friends! xo
Sue
Happy birthday and congrats! I love reading your blog and the great tutorials. I have used several of them, so keep 'em comin'!
Debbie
Congratulations! I love your baby quilts!
Emily Kim
Congratulations on SEVEN years!! I've only been following you for about one year, but I've truly enjoyed your posts (both quilty and personal)! I love seeing finished projects and book/pattern reviews! So more of those would be nice! 😉
Sinta
Amy you are so adorable! Congratulations for sharing your sweet self with every one of your friends out here in blogville for the past 7 years. Thank you for all your inspiration. Please do more sew alongs!
Leanne Parsons
Congratulations on 7 years!! My own blog is 2 1/2 years old, and I can see what you mean about feeling like you found a bunch of new friends. And the opportunities that come because of a blog are amazing (even if my opportunities so far don't include a book, lol). Thanks for all the amazing prizes that are available to win.
Jessica
You are so awesome! Thank you for the party!
Tracy Hudson
Happy Anniversary! I have so loved following you! You have inspired me as I began my quilting journey 4years ago. Your inspirations and tutorials and sponsors have all been so helpful! Thank you for taking that step!
Kris
Amy,
Thank you for the great give away! I started following your blog several years ago and love the sew-alongs and the fabulous tutorials. You always "keep things real".
Lynne Tilley
Your blog is awesome and I enjoy it so very much. There is no improvement needed, just keep doing what you're doing 🙂
Mary
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog it's very inspiring to my projects and Love hearing other stories. Continued success to you!
Linda Mae
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging. I dabbled in quilting for a few years but decided to get more serious about it 2 years ago. I have found your blog to be very inspiring. Quilt - a - longs always motivate me.
Sarah G.
Congratulations on your blogiversary! 😀 I only recently discovered your corner of the blogosphere and was instantly charmed by your projects. Keep up the good work!
Abigail cashelle
Congrats on seven years!! You're one of the first people who really helped me to see that quilting was possible for someone who knew only the basics of sewing and didn't know anyone who quilted. Thanks for making that leap of faith possible. I've had so much fun in the past 4.5 years quilting, and you're a big reason that happened!!
Abigail
Sharon
Your blog is such a pretty, happy place! Thanks for sharing the lovely things you make and for this awesome giveaway!
Denise
A very happy 7th anniversary to you!!! I finally started quilting because of your blog, starting with that star baby quilt. Thank you for making tutorials that are so easy to follow! As commenters before have said -- no changes, just MORE (blog posts that is). Thank you for finally getting me started!
donna
I'm new to quilting and just found your blog a couple of months ago. Thanks for all your help and congratulations!
Shirley Clark
Happy Anniversary! I love your blog. This is a great giveaway! I see lots of goodies I'd like to own.
jaNae
So happy for you!! I love love love your blog! Thanks for a chance to win!
Laurie B
WOW - look at all these great prizes! I especially like the Church Ladies' Apron bundle - so bright and cheery!! I've enjoyed reading your blog over the years - it's always so neat to see the growth of a blog. You've done a great job along the way. Isn't it amazing what we learn from blogs?!! Anyway happy blogiversary and thank you for the chance to win! Can't wait to see your email address in my Inbox!!
Laura
Congrats!! I'm at the beginning - just getting started on my quilting journey. I feel like the blogosphere is saturated with enough quilting blogs. I mean, there's no way I have anything new to say. But yet I find myself wanting to document my journey - whether anybody else reads it or not! Here's to jumping in!
Cindy
Thanks for your work-especially love your patterns.
Debbie M
Congratulations, Amy! Love your story. I've been following you for a while, but never comment. 🙂 I find your variety very good, so I don't think there's anything you need to change or add. Thanks and keep up the good work.
AUDREY
Congrats on 7 yrs! Woohoo! I've been following along with your for several years, not commenting much, but enjoying what I see. Thanks for having such a special giveaway! I voted for you on Bloglovin'--really thought you should win.:)
Melissa
Congrats on 7 years! Love your work and awesome prizes.
Lisa
Happy Anniversary! Love your blog!
Connie
I never expect to win these giveaways (although 7 is my lucky number!) but I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your blog. I don't know how I found you and I am a fairly new follower . . . both here and on Facebook. You've inspired me to get back into making quilts (I have already utilized a couple of your tutorials) and I am seriously considering revving up my old blog. I've missed it! Congratulations on your milestone! I love seeing creative women gain success!
kate a
Happy Anniversary! I love your blog and I really love learning about mixing and matching colors and patterns. Your pictures are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing all your hints and helps.
Lisa Flinders
Ah, I could never give you an advice. You're doing an amazing job. However, you did neglect to post what an amazing woman you are away from the computer. The years of service you gave the ladies in your church. The many times are a room mom. And how happy you are with everyone. Congrats. To many more years of success!
Joanne o'hara
Congratulations and thank you for a wonderful blog!
Jill Potter
I have bookmarked your blog and check in to get inspired! Congrats on all your accomplishments!
Cindi kneff
I found you via Pinterest with your series about how to quilt - I'm new to quilting this year so it was very helpful. I enjoy visiting your website and seeing what greatness you create! I'm super glad you took the jump 7 years ago!! May the next 7 be even better!
Frankie
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog and am always so happy when there's a new post. Your quilting style and fabric choices really speak to me and give me so much inspiration. Thank YOU for taking the plunge and sharing so much of your talent with all of us!
Joye
Congratulations on your blog anniversary. You do such a fine job with your blog that it's hard to think of anything else. Just keep up the good work. Thanks for hosting such a neat giveaway.
joyecox@yahoo.com
Robyn
What a great giveaway! Thanks. I enjoy your blog very much.
Mary
I enjoy you blog so much, it's always like listening to a friend. So here's to many more 🙂
Cynthia Brunz
Congratulations on 7 years! I always enjoy seeing what you are up to. I have made quilts from a few of your patterns and they are some if my favorites. How fun to celebrate with so many great gifts!
Tracie
I remember meeting you when you still worked at AQ and I told you I followed your blog and how I loved that you kept things simple and real. I also took your class at Quilt Bliss and you are the same person in real life that you are on the blog. I love how you seem to prefer simple quilts and don't worry about keeping up an image of "perfection." It makes quilting more doable for beginners.
Congrats on a great seven years!
Charlotte Lunsford
Congrats on 7 years! Such an inspirational post. Taking the plunge is so hard. Love your blog keep up the great work.
Christy
I think I have been reading your blog almost all 7 years. I love your patterns and fabrics and have followed several tutorials!
Esther
Congratulations! I enjoy reading your blog. It seems like you do a good job of keeping it real yet professional.
wendy lewis
I am so glad you share your talents! Your tutorials are so easy to follow! Ive done several! Congratulations!!
Nancy l
Love your blog and am so happy you took the plunge. I too would like to see more baby quilts.
Olivia
Happy blogiversary! I have a weird one for what I'd like to see on your blog, I am still rather a beginner and am always interested in seeing what the backs with all the seams pressed look like for people's quilt tops just to see if mine are a total mess or if I'm doing it right.
Teresa Block
Congrats on this wonderful anniversary and thanks for the advice to take a leap....very needed by me at this specific time in my life! I hope you have many more successful years with your blog and in your life!
Catherine
Such a wonderful site I love reading your posts. I loved all you have done in the past and feel you don't need to change anything ?
Marie
Love your post about gifts for quilters. My daughter googled that term once and now uses your post for gift ideas for me!
DiAne woodward
Little Miss Amy: the quilter that could! ? Iam so proud to call you friend! I loved working with you and miss seeing you! ?. "Lattice" and I enjoy spending time together. If I am ever searching for a specific tutorial (burp cloths, triangle quilt, baby quilt) I always know your blog has the best! Love you girl! Happy Seventh! (You don't look a day over 6!) ???????
Heather
Happy Blogiversary! I'm getting back into quilting and have recently found your blog. I have really enjoyed everything I have seen so far!
Mary ann
Congratulations! I have so enjoyed watching all the fun things coming your way...so well deserved. And thanks for thinking if us to celebrate with!
Rochelle
Congratulations on Seven Big Years. It takes a lot of dedication to turn out regular blogs filled with wonderful content and still do all the other things required by most of us. Looking forward to seven more years.
Jacque Clements
Happy anniversary! Wonderful giveaways that would be fun to win. I am sure you have done it at some time in the blog's 7 years - but I would love to see a your quilters gift list for others to get ideas about what we really want for gifts this holiday season!
Gwen Windham
I always enjoy following your blog-- all your adventures and beautiful projects!! Thank you so much for sharing with us -- all your talents AND the chance to win a prize!! 🙂
Melissa Murray
Congrats on 7 years! Love your blog and all of the inspiration I get from it. I would for you to do a QAL in the future 🙂
Maureen
What a great 7 years you have had! Keep up the fabulous blogs, I love them all. No suggestions from me on what to blog about next, you are doing a great job without my help! 🙂
Linda S
Conrats on 7 years!! I have only been quilting about 5 yrs and only started looking at blogs for about 2 and found yours maybe a year and a half ago and am so glad I did. I enjoy seeing your new projects and trip photos (it may be the only way I ever see Europe). Thanks for all that you do and here's to another 7 successful years!!
dragonfly9716 at yahoo dot com
Anita
Congratulations Amy! I enjoy reading your blog posrs and love your tutorials ! I'd love to see more small quilt ideas. Thanks for the inspiration!
Charlene G
Congrats on 7 years, I love your blog and follow you on Instagram and Facebook. I have thought of starting a blog for years, just haven't gotten up the courage to actually do it yet. I don't know how I would find the time for it, I can barely find time to sew. I would love to know how you manage your time day to day (family, sewing, household chores). I feel bad when I sit down to sew, there's always something that needs to be done around the house. I want to buy fabric everyday but groceries and bills come first. Thank you for the chance to win this awesome giveaway.
Kate Coleman
I love your blog. I have learned so much from you over the past few years. Your best advice to to just jump in and do it!
Barbara Bailey
What an awesome giveaway! Congratulations on 7 years. I'm fairly new to this world of boggers but I like it.
Jen
Congrat on 7 years! I'm new to quilting, so would love tutorials, and technique step by step posts. Love your style, easy to read format, and all the beautiful quilts!
Eleni
Happy blogaversary Amy!!! Your post today is very close to me, because im thinking of starting my own blog, and I'm so so scared!!! I want to share my thoughts and the items that im making, the process, like a dear diary kind of thing, oh, and im so stuck the last 10 months (i was thinking of starting it in the beginning of 2015!!). But then again, I make some thoughts like, shall I write in English, or Greek (Im greek)? shall I write in both languages? or pick one? what happens then? do I think about one target group and not the other? these kind of thoughts are in my head, hopefully i will make up my mind and dive right in, like you!!! Thank you for sharing this post, wish all the best for the followin years!!! love and hugs from Greece!!!
Carol
Wow! So fun and generous. I think I've been following your blog for at least 5 of those 7 years -- I have no suggestions. You do a fabulous job.
Gloria Yates
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging. I have been reading your blog for sometime and I think we do begin to feel as if we "know" the blogger and have a connection. I believe that is a sign of a good blogger! Thanks for the giveaway!
Cara
Happy anniversary!
Sara
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! I always love it when you have a new blog post as you are so inspiring and also so honest! You don't show us a perfect life, you show us how quilting fits into your life and I love that! Keep up the great work!
delaine
Congratulations on your anniversary! I am so glad that you took the plunge 7 years ago and started blogging. I have been following you for a long time and really enjoy your blog. Thanks!
Kelly P
Happy anniversary!
I'm still in the imaginary friend stage, but oh, how I love visiting your blog and others! You make me feel like I'm not alone in my love of sewing! So thanks!
Dawn Jones
Happy Anniversary! I wish I could think of what I would want to see more of, but you have great tutorials, they are so easy to understand. Thank you and the sponsors for such an awesome giveaway. But most of all thank you for teaching others like myself. Have a great day!
Kristen S
Happy Anniversary! Congratulations on 7 years!
diana
Please reassure your husband that I am completely stable and completely real! I enjoy learning from, and being inspired by you! Even travel stories! Congrats on your Anniv!!
Laura
Congratulations on the success of your blog. But more congratulations about what you've learned about yourself and quilting and being at home with kids. Looking forward to seeing what you are up to in the future!
Holly H
Congrats on 7 years!
Terri stutz
Congrats!!! What a wonderful accomplishment! I have loved to read the blog, visit your vendors and day dream- a lot! I have also purchased a few patterns in the past. I am hoping to start a "Craftsman" quilt soon. Thanks! And keep blogging!!!
Stacy
Your blog is an inspiration to me! I'll be you're just as nice in person. Great giveaways!!
Isabella
Congrats to your 7 years of blogging! Thanks for all the inspiring ideas and posts, I don't know what I would like to see more than what you are already posting, is such a nice blog.
Thanks again
Isabella
Carol C
Happy blogaversary! and what a great giveaway!
Karen @runsewfun
So now I have two things to celebrate today; my first time ever participating in a bog hop(!!!), and the anniversary of one of my favorite sources of inspiration. Congratulations and THANK YOU!
Debbie
Congratulations! WOW - seven years! Your quilts are amazing and I love seeing your updates.
Bridget
Congrats! I love your book Fabulously fast quilts! You've taught me a lot about quilting!
Jennifer
Congratulations on 7 years! What a great selection of prizes!!
Judy
Congratulations on 7 years! That is quite an accomplishment and such dedication! Love your blog, it always has so much inspiration!
aMY aDAMS
You are an inspiration!! I am a SAHM of 4 crazy kiddos, and took the plunge into the world of quilting (and fabric hoarding!) a year and a half ago. I LOVED seeing your pics with tiny feet hanging out from under the table as you work!! Story of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything! Your patterns and tutorials are inspiring...much love!!
Amy
Liz rehrauer
I discovered blogs when I decided to start quilting when I retired. Blogs are the best. You and the rest of the quilting community have taught me so much and keep me motivated. Thanks for being here for those of us who don't write everyday.
Elaine Satterfield
You and your blog have been a real inspiration to me! I started quilting 4 years ago, making a Baptism quilt for my daughter. The very next thing I made was your Lattice quilt for another daughter's twin bed. I am hooked and dream of starting a blog too, just feel intimidated. Congratulations on your great success doing what we all love!
Sadie
Funny that your 7 year blog-iversery falls so close to my 7 year anniversary. October 9th was our big day! Keep doing what you're doing..I love every bit of it and follow religiously.
Cheri Dodson
I absolutely LOVE your blog! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! I would love to win any of these items! I'm a relatively new quilter. I've been sewing since I was about 5 or 6 years old and have always been envious of people who make quilts, so I dove in and made a mystery quilt. It's really pretty - now I just have to quilt it!
Helen Malanchak
Your blog is awesome and congrats on 7 years. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win. Keep up the great work and I look forward to reading your blog for another 7 years 🙂
Trish vickery
I have loved your blog ever since I found it through Instagram. Awesome giveaways!
Janet Medina
What a great giveaway. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging!
Kathy Duval
Love your blog, keep up the good work. I would love anyone of the gifts you have on display. Everything looks great.
Carol Leatherman
Congratulations on seven great years! Yours was the first blog on quilting I found, and I love it! Would love to see more travel blogs -
Annalynn
I first found your site through your Union Jack quilt, which I love, love, love. Keep up the good work!
Theresa Jamieson
Congratulations! More of it all:) love yOur work!
Michelle
Congrats! I love looking at all your posts!! What a sweet and fun giveaway!! Thanks!! 🙂
Jay
You Brave Girl, you! Well done, and thanks for sharing your quilty life with us. (I really loved seeing those little feet sticking out from under your sewing table. Sweet!)
Terri Witherspoon
Awesome. 7 yrs,and counting!!
Melissa
Congratulations! I'm relatively new to quilting, and I love your blog because it's a constant source of inspiration. I really enjoy the tutorials! Thanks for being such a joy to read.
RHONA
Congratulations on 7 years, I have been following you for quite a few years and I always look forward to your tutorials, I have learned from you and I would not change a thing, just keep doing what your doing , great job Amy! Oh I hope I win something lol.
Robin
Congratulations, both on your blog and the bravery it took to jump in. I am trying to summon up some courage myself so I was touched by your inspiring words. Thanks!
Jean Davis
Congratulations! Your blog inspires and instructs beautifully, and I am very thankful for it. Here's to many more years of quilting.
janet schlagel
I have only become fimilar with your blog recently. (One of the good things of having an illness I guess. ) I appreciate your voice and the proects that you share. Thank you for your inspirations and generosiy.
Ashley
Happy blog anniversary! One thing I can never find really good help on is how to convert quilt sizes! Do you have a good method for taking a queen size pattern down to a crib quilt, or sizing up a baby quilt to a twin? Just some examples. Thanks!!
Karen
Congratulations on 7 years! I came across your blog about two years ago and have been following ever since. Love your tutorials - many great ideas and the instructions are easy to follow. Thanks for hosting this give-away!
Lisa Price
Congratulations on your 7 years. You've come a long way!! I follow you on Bloglovin' and your blog is at the top of my favorites! and I it just keeps getting better!
Robby
I totally understand that "new friends" thought, exactly how I felt after coming back to quilting as I took a break around the time blogs became so popular. If you have access to images of your patterns created by others, it would be fun to see an occasional post rounding up some from one particular pattern. Sometimes seeing a variety of "takes" on the same pattern inspires new ideas for the viewer to "make it their own".
Aivosolu
Wow. Happy blogiversary! I got dizzy just reading through all that giveaway goodness. Wow. I come to visit your blog to see your quilts. Of course I appreciate all little tips and tricks that I find here that I haven't figured out myself.
Tiina
Happy anniversary! Glad that you jumped and did it 🙂
Julie Winder
Congratulations on 7 years!
So grateful I met you at SNAP and you inspired me to try quilting. I still have my half square triangle pillow displayed proudly on my couch you taught me to make that year!
Amy Smart
Yay!
Faye
Congrats on 7 amazing years! I love your tutorials & your quilt style, Amy. the prizes you are giving away are all so generous & I'd love to win any of them..
Sarah J.
I love that you shared about how you got started- so inspiring! I think my husband worries about my mental health a bit when I try to explain who I "follow" online and such! Thanks for sharing some amazing prizes- and congrats on many years of beautiful, hard work!
Stephanie olmsted
Happy blogiversary! I love seeing tutorials, works in progress, completed projects. fabrics!
barbara qualls
Congratulations!! I just recently started quilting, and reading your blog has given my so many ideas and inspires me.
Maile Marquand
Congratulations! I love all your tutorials and your projects are so inspiring. Thank you!
-Maile
Susan Hahaj
love your post! Blogging has literally changed the world, no doubt, and opened up so many opportunities for everyone who wishes to share on a blog. Congrats on your anniversary and thanks for a sweet giveaway!
Carolyn S
What a way to Celebrate!!! I only started quilting four years ago and found your blog shortly afterwards. I love all your posts - vacations, tutorials, recommended products, websites to visit. Please don't change anything, just keep it coming. I just reread your Christmas tree skirt blog page yesterday and am ready to start one of my own using one piece of cloth, not a patchworky one. You remind me to be real as a quilter and not put unnecessary pressure on myself to be something I'm not or may never be. You display a joy in the journey attitude towards quilting and I need that. Thanks for just being you!
Nicole Zeisler
Congrats to 7 years! I'm thankful for many of your tutorials or I might have given up!! I hope you continue to blog for many years to come!
Julia
Congrats! This is amazing, and so inspiring as well. When I decided that I would like to start quilting this blog was my goto, I learned everything from here, so I'm really grateful.
Ruth Cadwallader
Amy - I love reading your blog and enjoy everything you post but I'm a sucker for any new tutorial. Took a class from you at the Riley Blake Quilt Fest which was such a treat! Happy Blogiversary!
Mary Hope
How inspiring you are Amy! I'd love to see how your family deals with your sewing and blog these days...does your daughter still enjoy quilting? What positive attributes have developed as far as your sons are concerned, are connected with having this blog? I love reading your blog and hope it goes on for at least another 7 years. I ask all these questions because I sometimes wonder about starting a blog.
Pauline
I just recently started reading your blog and it's become one of the first blogs I read for the day. Thank you.
Liz
Love your designs and blog. Would love to win! Congrats on 7 years of blogging. 🙂
s.Marie.B
I love your blog, I love the down to earth writing, and how you make the fabric just shine in your quilts. You help me see blocks in a new & different way, that helps me challenge myself, and turns on my desire to get back to the sewing machine when I've been pulled away by 'life'. Thanks so much and I'm so glad you jumped into blogging 7 years ago so I could find some of your inspiration.
candie graham
Congratulations on your SEVEN YEAR BLOGIVERSARY! What an awesome achievement! To seven more!
Dotti
I have to thank Kevin the Quilter for introducing me to your blog. It is one he reads faithfully. The goodies are awesome. Thanks for the opportunity.
Dotti
Elizabeth R
Congratulations on your blogiversary, Amy! I hope you continue blogging for many years to come!
kathleen
Congratulations on a great accomplishment! I LOVE your blog, and look forward to the NEXT seven years!
Claire long
Hi Amy! How kind are to to celebrate you blog anniversary by giving away presents! Awesome! I'm looking forward to following you for years to come.
Shelley
Please share more about how your inspiration begins and how it develops along the way until it becomes a new design!
Ceci lee
Wow! Congrats on seven years! You were one of the first quilt blogs I discovered four years ago and have been such an encouragement and inspiration on my quilting journey! I love your work, and your book!
Jenelle Boxberger
Wow, congratulations, I agree it is a scary step to start a blog, wish I had the know how to do a blog. Thanks for giving me a chance to win some of your gifts. Enjoyed looking around your blog. Adorable kids.
Jill
Congratulations on 7 years! I have read your blog for most of those years and have loved all the tutorials, travels, and sharing goodness!
Suellen Dehnke
7 years is a long time to do any one thing. Congratulations on your success and being able to do what you love. So many goodies to give away. It's your anniversary shouldn't we be giving something to you? I can't think of any suggestions. I like reading your blog as it is.
Jenni
Everything is just so perfect I can't imagine anything you haven't done! So please keep up the easy peasy quilt patterns!
I think for me the appeal of your blog is your humility and kindness. You are so "real". It is comforting to read! I imagine if we lived in the same neighborhood we would be friends!
Doris McCarty
Congratulations! I love your blog. Thank you for the generous giveaway!
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Gemia Carroll
Happy Day for you! Thanks for the years of inspiration. I can't wait to see what the future holds for you.
Anna
I'm a new quilter and would love to win something in this giveaway!
Karen E.
I too, love your web site. I visit each day. Thanks for the giveaway and Congrats on 7 years!!!
I really enjoy the small crafty projects that I can compete in a day. Like the little pin-cushion!
Tami
Love your blogs. Your saying "done is better than perfect" really keeps me going. I would love to see some mini quilts. 🙂
Elizabeth W
Congratulations and thank you for the giveaway!
muzikalmama
Amy - you continue to inspire me with everything you say and do! I love your way of making things simple and clear, and I thank you for all your generous input on my little projects. How about some info on how to choose low volume fabrics? From someone who does almost everything BRIGHT and BOLD, I really want to learn how to use low volumes to vary my palette 😀 Congrats on 7 years!
Andrea
The first quilt I ever made was your "I Spy" baby quilt. Still my favorite!
pEGgy Legate
Congratulations on 7 years blogging. I don't have a blog; but certainly enjoy reading yours. Your tutorials have been very helpful.
Julie
I have followed your blog for years and am so glad you took that plunge! I can't believe it has been 7 years--congratulations!
Thanks for the chance to win~
pEGgy Legate
Congratulations on 7 years blogging. I don't have a blog; but have enjoyed reading yours. Also, your tutorials are very helpful. Love seeing your accomplishments.
Lisa Marie
I always enjoy your blog posts and your projects. Thanks for sharing lots of valuable quilting knowledge. Congratulations on 7 year (wow) !
Kathy H
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog and your style in general. I've been reading your blog for many years, but unfortunately I'm terrible at commenting. I'm a hopeless lurker! Thanks for the great inspiration and also your wonderful tutorials, and I look forward to many more years of blog fun!
Barb
I am new to quilting so these prizes would come in very handy! Thanks for the.opportunity to try new things!
Jessica
I would love to see just more of the same beautiful quilt that you've always made. Congratulations on your wonderful blog
Melissa Brown
Congratulations, what an accomplishment to keep your blog going for 7 years! Thank you for sharing your journey in quilting with us. I look forward to many more blog posts.
Susan
I love the colo s of the "Pie Making" fabric,
they would go perfect on my next
Susan
I didn't get to finish my comment.
It will go perfectly on my next quilt.
I hope I win!
Phyllis Jaco
What I enjoy is mixture of pics with same pattern but different fabric selections. I love your site !
Laura
Congratulations on 7 wonderful years!! You are such an inspiration...I always enjoy your blog. Many more years of fun (for you and for us!!)
Brianna P
Woo hoo! Congrats on 7 years! Thank you for your blog and all your tutorials. The first quilt I made as a gift came from one of your tutorials!!
Cynthia thomas
Congratulations on achieving such a grand accomplishment! I can barely get my laundry done before having to wash it over again! So proud of you! I'd love to win, I'd put it all to good use!
Jennifer
!!Happy Blogiversary!! Thanks for the chance at this wonderful giveaway.
Amy Cavanagh
Seven years is a good ol' time - well done!! I didn't know what blogs were until I started quilting - they go hand in hand for me!!
Marilyn Robinson
I've enjoyed reading you over the years and would only wish for more of the same -- congratulations!
NorahS
I love your blog! Yours and crazymomquilts are my two favorites. And I love it that you two have met! I also love your book! I bought a copy for both myself and my daughter for Christmas. Happy blogaversary!
Diana
Hi Amy
Congratulations on your blogiversary. I love reading your blog which I only discovered last year. I started quilting two years ago after many years of dressmaking and your blog helped me to make a cot quilt for my granddaughter last Christmas. I enjoy all your posts but especially the recent ones about antique quilts. Keep on blogging and quilting!
anne d
I love reading blogs about quilting and yours is always enjoyable. I love that I am reading things written all over the world. Thanks for a great giveaway and congratulations on your first 7 years.
Elaine K
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! That's one quarter of your life, right? ? I love your down to earth style and helping to make the quilty world such a nice to place to be. And I think you must have the best "husband holding [a] quilt" out there! Keep up the great work! ?
Tracy
Congrats on 7 years. I've only been following for about a year but I love it. In the future keep the WIP updates coming (maybe with tutorials attached?) I love just seeing what you are doing.
JoyceLM
Happy 7th blogiversary. Love your blog.
Logan
Those tiny feet poking out from under the table are the prefect touch. Happy blogiversary!
Katy M
Congratualtions on your 7 years! I bet it's flown by, here's to the next 7 🙂
Kate
What a fun giveaway! Thanks for sharing! Happy Blogiversary!
sarah gillooly
I love your blog! Check almost daily for inspiration! Happy Anniversary!
Sarah
Dawnesea
Sure do love your work and the ideas that I have gotten from you are fantastic. I have even visited some of your sponsors and bought my first charm packs from Green Fairy. Keep up the awesome work.
Sandy K
Congrats on 7 years of blogging. You have very generous sponsors for all these prizes.
Ashley
Congratulations on the blogiversary! Love your blog.
sarah gillooly
Check your blog almost daily for inspiration! Happy Anniversary!
Sue Hunt
This is so generous of you - thank you!
Vicki H
Wow, 7 years is a lot of blogging. I found out about blogs when I got back into quilting nearly 5 years ago. So glad I found yours.
Charlotte
I enjoy your blog so much and I visit often. I sometimes think of starting a blog also.
Sydney
Love your blog, love your inspiration. Thanks for allowing us to celebrate with you. Congratulations.
Betty Clark
Congratulations on your 7th blog anniversary! I hope you have many more!
Betty Clark
Congratulations on your 7th blog anniversary! Here's to the next 7!
Deb W.
Congrats on your anniversary! Little bits of time add up to great success!
Diane
Congrats on seven years! And holy cow what great prizes - thanks for a chance to win. I've only been quilting for about two years and am glad I found your blog to follow.
cowgirl in the city
7 years fly by, don't they? I'd love to see more patterns and works in progress-- not only from you but other quilty friends. I love the inspiration.
Gina z
Congrats on 7 years! I always enjoy reading.
Lorraine
I love the variety on your blog: great tutorials, inspirational messages, tips on sewing and fabric, travel and family adventures, and lots of beautiful quilts. I've found my inspiration for several of my quilts from posts on your blog (thanks!). Congratulations on 7 years! Keep it up!
Jeanice Shelley
Hi Amy, Congrats on seven years of blogging and wishing you many more! Thanks for all the good tips you supply! I enjoy reading your blog and have read many of your tutorials.
Karen Caves
Congratulations!! What big accomplishment and I appreciate your blog and sharing your life and quilty makes pith us. Your work is so inspiring!
Linda enneking
Congratulations on seven years of blogging. It looks like you have come a long way in that time. Isn't it exciting to think what the next seven years might bring?
Kristen
I have enjoyed reading your blog because you are down to earth, kind and don't seem to be caught up in some of the catty things that others in the quilting world are caught up in. Congrats on the blog-iversary!
Rebecca miller
Hi Amy, I love your blog. Being quite new to quilting I find much inspiration reading your posts. Thank you for your wonderful blog.
Angela
Happy Blogiversary! I love your site and everything about it. Specifically I love the tutorials as well as the "regular life" stuff!!
valerie
Great blog Amy. Since you asked, I would like to see more tutorials on your blog.
That would be added inspiration and incentive.
carol broughton
I love your blog as it's so inspiring and full of great tips and gorgeous photos. I would like to see some small gift type projects. Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
Rita S.
Love seeing all your quilts.
Great giveaway!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Shelly
Congratulations on 7 years! That is so exciting. I love your blog and all your projects. You have such incredible talent! Thank you so much for such an awesome giveaway.
Alyssa
Congrats. I always check your blog. I love to see what projects you are working on. A fantastic 7 years!
Jamie
I love the tutorials/tricks and have found them very useful as I have started branching out in my quilts. I love 'meeting' the quilts you are working on, especially when even basic directions are shared. This is pretty much the only quilting blog that has stayed in my reader for more than a few months. I love it!
Beverly ingram
I think you should have won for best blog, I think you're great. Today I am busy making two pumpkin wall hangings from your patterns. I'm backing one with Valentine Hearts. It will be versatile.
Great blog
Jodi M.
I made my very first quilt 2 years ago using your Simple stripes baby quilt tutorial. Boy, was I hooked!
Diane Steiger
Happy 7 th Bet it doesn't seem possible that 7 years went so fast. I love seeing what the younger Quilters are making. New ideas and fabric mix.
Judy
Thank you Amy! You inspired me to get back to sewing and start my own blog. I love your quilts! Thank you for all of the great blog posts.
Vicky
Congratulations on 7 years!! You have a wonderful blog. Love to read it. As what I would like to see? I love reading about the quilts you have made. And dream of someday getting at least one of yours done. Thank you for a great blog and great prizes. timewilltell63 at yahoo dot com
DiaNe
Congrats on 7 years! I always enjoy your blog....and you used a favorite expression today....gird up your loins . My mother used to say that.
Linda Kay smith
Good job for seven years and here's to many more. Keep up the great blog work!
T
wow!!!! Congratulations!!!!!!! This is an achievement to celebrate ! I will tell you that when I first began to quilt, about 2 years ago, yours is the blog that taught me! Thank you very much!
T
Michelle Green
Thank YOU for your inspiration and thoughtfulness...from Canada!
Robby
Here's to 7 years!! Thanks for continuing to inspire the quilting community! And since you asked, I'm always interested to read more about the actual quilting part of the process; particularly how a quilting design is chosen and why.
Angela H
Congrats on 7 years yours was one of the first blogs I read when I started quilting.
Kath S
Wow -- 7 years!! Congratulations! That's quite an accomplishment. You've shared so much with us in your tutorials (they're great by the way!) and on your blog, I can't think of anything for you to add, except more of the same. Yours is one of my favorite blogs - thanks for sharing your talents. ktsquiltdreams (at)gmail (dot)com
Jennyroo
Wow! Seven years! I've been a follower for most of those, I'm pretty sure. I love always seeing beautiful photographs of new fabric, new patterns, new ideas with a personal twist. Looking forward to more of the same!!
Anita jenkins
Congratulation on your anniversary. You are such an inspiration. You are correct it is like a new group of friends. I love all your projects. Thankyou for a chance to win these great prizes. I enjoy stitchalongs .
Robin
And happy followers we all are! Congrats to you and many thanks to your sponsors for chance to win any one of these wonderful gifts!
Rhonda
Congrats! You were one of the first blogs that I started reading. I would love to see another Quilt Along.
Terry
Congrats on 7 years!! I enjoy tutorials, so I'd love to see more of them on your blog :o)
kelly
Congrats! I love your blog - so many great quilts and projects.
Kay :-)
oh my goodness! 7 years! It is just a little less than that when I found you and started my online quilting journey! You were one of the first blogs I found - and I started with your charm square skirt for my grand daughters! And your book - my first purchased quilt book! Thank you so much for all your support and inspiration! Keep up the good work and thanks again for sharing 🙂
Wendy
Thank you for taking the plunge into blog world! I look forward to reading your blog and am inspired by all you do. Thanks also for a chance at your wonderful giveaways!
Robin
Thank you for seven years of inspiration!
Dortha
Congratulations. Just keep the quilt inspiration coming. Always look forward to seeing new projects.
Brenda
Congratulations! Your creativity is inspirational!
Joan
I'm so glad you started your own special journey 7 years ago. Best of all you let us join you on the trip. I've made a few of your patterns and have gotten some of my finest results. The directions are clear and you bring solid piecing advice into every pattern, so I feel like I'm not working alone. Your blog and Instagram posts are so down to earth, that I feel you are a long time friend. Keep up the great work!
margo
Congratulations! I love your blog, especially when you talked about your trips, I felt like I was there with you. I also love your book and your projects. You're a ton of inspirations!!
Diane
Congrats on your blogiversary and thanks for the chance to win one of your awesome giveaways.!
Phoebe Ingraham
I love your blog! Your tutorials are so helpful. I'm just new into quilting, so I think a quilt along would be fun to do with you! Congratulations on your 7 years!
Terri moses
I just started following blogs about 2 years ago. I am so glad that yours was one that I found. Keep up the great work you do and I will continue to enjoy your blog. 🙂
wendy
Happy Blogiversary. Thanks for the inspiration to attempt quilting. I have just started quilting and have found your tutorials to be very helpful. Thank-you for offering such an awesome giveaway.
Jackie
Congratulations on 7 years!! How kind of you to offer such great prizes.
Laura B
I'd like to know how you choose fabrics for a holiday quilt. I have stash of themed prints -- should I mix them with other prints from my stash?
Nancy Cim
I am always so happy to see that I have an email from you. When I read your blog your enthusiasm and encouragement always shines through. Thanks for taking the plunge those seven years ago.
Jen B
Happy 7th anniversary! Thanks for all of the great giveaways.
Nancy
Congrats on 7 years! Here's to 7 more!
Sonya
What a fun and exciting celebration and giveaway! I love your posts! You are an inspiration to me! Keep up the good work!!
Jan N.
Happy Blogiversary!!! I enjoy reading each and every one of your blogs. Your tutorials are great and I'd love for you to continue doing them. Would like to see another quilt a long. Continued success to you.
Jennifer
Congrats! And thank you, Amy, for taking that plunge 7 years ago. Yours one one of the first blogs I found when I started quilting a few years ago. You have inspired me and I have learned so much.
Kris Fisher
I'm so glad you decided to start blogging 7 years ago! Have been following you for a long time and enjoyed what you have to say. Would love to win any of the terrific give-aways!
Jacquie
Wow!! Huge congratulations on 7 years.... Here's to many many more!!
I am a newcomer to the quilting world, I love to learn and your tutorials are brilliant. I love the projects you do, they ooze happiness 🙂
Smiles 🙂
Samantha d
Such an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations on such an inspiring body of work!! I have been trying to establish a blog for a while now but haven't been able to dedicate enough time to making it my version of 'perfect ' so your words really spoke to my heart today and I have to thank you for that! Your perspective is changing the way I have been thinking about my own small contribution to this wonderful quilting community...xxx
Judy
Congrats on seven years. Would love to see more of the same for the next seven.
Diane'
congrads. I just love your blog and all the items you make. I would love to see some table runners. I want to make some for my children for the holidays and would love some new ideas. thank you for all the time you put into this.
Sandra B.
Congratulations !! I have loved your blog since I first discovered it about two years ago!! You bring such a fresh look to quilting, while keeping a connection to quilting traditions! Thank you for being such an inspiration! And thanks for the chance at some awesome giveaways!!
Vickie d
Yours was the first quilt blog I ever followed. I'm new to quilting and found your blog to informative and friendly. Congrats on your blogiversary!
Allison C
Congrats on 7 years!!! Just keep doing what you are doing. I'm a happy blog reader and appreciate your posts!
Shayne
Congratulations!!
Amy in VA
Happy anniversary.
I read but don't post so I'll promise to do better. It must feel at times like sendings messages in bottles and hoping for a response. Thank you for putting yourself out 'here'.
Most of my life these days I'm happy if I get to Done, let alone perfect. I'm working on quilts for teachers now. At my pace, the end of year is just around the corner... Here's to many more.
Carole williams
I have always loved your blog. I am impressed with your comments of growth during these 7 years. This will be a great giveaway to mark your anniversary. I will probably check your patterns to see if I need something I don't already have. Keep up the good work, Amy, as you inspire many of us to be better quilters.
Ellen KR
That is not just a nice buch of loot.. that is A LOT of loot!! Congratulations on your Blogiversary!
Jenn
I love your story Amy, and you offer such good advice!! Happy 7 years to you!!!! What an amazing giveaway 😉
Patty Hall
just recently found your blog! Congratulations!!
Patty H.
Happiest Camper
Happy 7 Years!
Becki Fisher
Congrats on Seven years! I live in a rural area with no local quilt shop or guild ? so, the blog-o-sphere is where I get my fix on all things Quilt-y. Thanks for all your hard work and for a sweet give-away!
Josee
Happy blogversary to you. I love coming here because you inspire me. I especially like your ideas for small projects that I can make in an afternoon . I have a crazy busy schedule and little time these days. You keep it simple, uncomplicated and fun. Thank you xo
Jennifer
Congrats! I am new to quilting so I love learning any tips or hacks!
CHRISITINE PUNIELLO
Congratulations on 7 yrs!!! I love your blog and all of your quilts and tutorials!! You inspire me!!!
Lee
A huge Congratulations to you!!! Thank you for the coupon for your shop and for your generosity! I really enjoy reading your blog!
Ariel
Congratulations on the "blogiversary!" I do enjoy reading your blog for quilting inspiration! 🙂
sue gordon
Congratulations on 7 years in the blogisphere. Seeing your growth and success is inspirational. I've been following you for several years - your blog was one of my first. Just keep on showing me that eye candy and I'm happy! Thanks for the generous giveaway.
Karen mcmahon
Congratulations on your 7 year anniversary! I have enjoyed your blog for many years. What would I like to see in the future?.....well more of the same great projects, patterns and inspiration!
Cindi H.
Congrats on 7 years! It's always fun to see your projects. Just keep doing what you have been doing....it's all good!
Debbie Gallett
I always enjoy reading your blog. I love all of my imaginary friends. Great prizes.
Rachel
Congratulations on 7 years! Yours is my absolute favorite quilting blog ever since I found it!
Lauraraquel
CONGRATS!!! On 7 Years. I love to see all of your Beautiful Creations. I check your blog everyday to see if you posted something new. I'm always so excited to see a new project or read about what you have been up to. Thank You for the inspiration.
vickie w
congrats! i love your blog and projects. Now that I'm adding another grandchild I'd love to see more baby quilts!
Sandy A in St. Louis
Happy blog-iversary to you! So glad I found your blog to follow. I would love to see more tutorials on how to quilt samplers or even some sew-alongs, whatever you would like to do is fine by me! 🙂
Susan McGregor
Happy Blogiversary! I love following your blog and checking out your tutorials. You are so creative and have a great blog "voice". This is an awesome giveaway. Thanks for the chance.
Yvonne
You have accomplished amassing things in just 7 years and deserve a great big CONGRATULATIONS!!!
All I hope for from you is more of the same.
KimberlY
Seven years! good job! I enjoy your blog, thank you for your posts! Great give aways!!
cyndi black
Congratulations on 7 years. I love you blog and also follow you on Instagram. Keep up the good work and great quilts.
Andrea franklin
Congratulations on your amazing seven year journey!! And what a fabulous giveaway. So generous!!! I've been following for 3+ years now and always enjoy the creative and inspiring journey you provide each week!
Carla schattle
I am a new quilter and your tutorial series for beginners was invaluable to me. Congrats on 7 years, you are a talented lady!
Crystle minor
You should feel so accomplished. As I as scrolling to the bottom to leave a comment I thought they would never end there were so many!! People clearly love what you write :). Me included! It is amazing how connected we get through the things like blogs Instagram and Facebook. What did we ever do without them? I am so glad to be able to share with so many people just from following their blogs. Thank you for being part of that:)
Jan SEssions
Congratulations of your 7 year journey. You inspire me with all the ideas, tutorials, and just posts. Thank you. I love your blog and visit regularly. Thanks for the fabulous giveaways.
Amy
Congratulations on 7 years! Great blog!
Sally Christiansen
Happy blog anniversary! Your blog was the very first blog of any kind I started reading several years ago. You are always so down to earth and make no bones about trying to juggle home, husband, kids, quilting, church, and just life. I love your honesty and your beautiful sewing. thank you for all you share as it helps all of us know that life doesn't have to be a struggle.
Tamie
Congratulations on your anniversary. I can remember finding blogs a few years ago and so much inspiration! It makes me sad to think that they may go by the wayside to IG. Thank you for taking the time to blog and share your creations. I love seeing the process as well as the finished project.
Lisa Fahrlander
Congrats on your 7 years. Thank you for the great giveaways.
Christine
Thanks so much for creating this site! I LITERALLY learned to quilt from your tutorials - How to Make a Quilt From Start to Finish taught me all I needed to get started. Two years and many many quilts later, I still check your site every day. Thanks for the inspiration and education!
Ruth G
Amy,
Congratulations! I really enjoy your blog. Best wishes going forward!
Kerrie
Great blog! Congrats on the anniversary! I love how you mesh the craft of quilting with life and family ... really insightful and delightful. Agreeing with some of the above posters ... a quilt-a-long would be fun!
MArie-Claude Coupal
Congratulations for this 7 years !! Your blog is full of informations and it inspirering me a lot.
I read your post on ANTIQUE PIONEER QUILTS, and it is really interesting to know more on the quilting history, that will be great to have some other like this !
Long life to your blog !
Marie-Claude
Heidi K
Happy 7 years! I'd like to see more baby quilt and baby gift tutorials.
Jody h
Congrats on 7 years! We sure missed you at the quilt retreat (cabin fever 3). I loved your post awile back about favorite quilting things or quilting gift ideas and think that would be fun topic to revisit.
Amy
well, congratulations on 7 wonderful years and all that you have accomplished. It's always hard for me to comprehend how you get so much done when you also have a family who needs you. How do you do it? My best to you for many more fun, creative and inspiring years ahead.
Teressa
Congrats on 7 years blogging! Thanks for the chance to win one of those fantastic prizes ???
Melissa Miller
Congratulations on your milestone! You've done a great job!
Susan Brehm
Seven years - congratulations! I'm the worlds worst blogger but you're so encouraging I'm not giving up. Thank you! And uber thanks for an awesome giveaway!
TAmara
Happy 7th blogversary to you! Your quilts are beautiful and inspiring 🙂
Rachael
I love your blog! Congratulations on 7 years! I love the tutorials and pictures you post.
Erika nickens
congrats and thanks for sharing with us! I just began following blogs and it has opened my eyes to others doing similar things as well!!!
Cathy kizerian
Hi Amy, I've been reading your blog for about 4 years and feel (as you did many years ago) as though we are friends. I live in the Salt Lake area and keep hoping to run into you at a SLMQG meeting. But anyway, I love your blog as is, so just keep up the great work!
Jason Pelusio
I started quilting early 2014 and have made over 18 different quilts in that time. My amazing assistant turned me on to your blog at the beginning of this year and I love it! I am color blind (red/green deficiency), and I don't always trust my instincts, so your blog helps give me ideas for my projects. I would love to see more tips on how to color match in ways that would allow me to trust my decisions better.
Shelly
Happy blogiversary! I can never get enough tutorials and patterns for the day I finally sit down to quilt again.
Louise
Congratulations! I'm late to the party, having only found your blog this past year. You have been so inspirational. I am excited to learn more from you at Quilt Con and look forward to many more year of living vicariously though your posts.
The think I enjoy most is when you share your decision-making process. I'm confident in my sewing (mostly), but like to have insight into the process of choosing fabrics, deciding on quilting patterns, and generally making sense of the stash!
Thanks again to you and all your sponsors for the generous gifts.
Kit
I just started quilting this year, so I am relatively new to your blog. Thank you for sharing with us - I get inspired and have learned so much! Keep up the great work!
Sandy Lowery
Congratulations on seven years. I would love to see more small quilts.
Mimi
Congrats, your blog was home of my very first tutorial.
Thank you
barbara woods
congrats and thanks for the chance
Jane Eilderts
Congratulations oseven years!
Katie
I love your blog! I am continuously amazed at how you take some of the same patterns me reimagine them in different color schemes.
Patti
Hi Amy, Congratulations, you have worked so hard! You have been an inspiration to us beginners. I started following you about four years ago. You are always so kind and generous. You have helped me become better at so many things that I was afraid to try. And along the way shared with us all your wonderful thoughts and ideas. I wish you and your family all the best!
Tessa Huff
I'm glad I found your site! I just started quilting and I already bought your book. I can't wait to try some of them soon. Congratulations on your milestone!
Aimee
Congratulations on 7 years! I was busy with my first newborn then. Only now have I discovered the fun in quilting! I'd love to hear what you do with your extra fabric and scraps from trimming. I have a hard time throwing them away and would love to either make something from them or find a better way to recycle them. Thank you!
Rae R
Thank you for taking the plunge and starting your blog. I have enjoyed reading it, and have gained so much knowledge and inspiration from it. Thanks for the fun giveaway also!
Debbie D
Happy blogiversary!! 25 years ago I told my husband I wanted to do nails and he asked how much do you need to get set up.. He agreed and it opened a whole bunch of opportunity doors for me and hundreds of life long dear friends around the world.. Enjoy the ride.. do what you love every day 🙂 today I am still in the nail world winding a slow path towards the quilting world 🙂
Ciara
Congrats on seven years! I would love to hear any tips you may have regarding quilting on a basic home machine. Like, the actual quilting part. I'm pretty good at sewing, but the quilting always gets me.
Naomi
I just wanted to say that I love your blog. I remember when I found it I just spent a day reading through the archive. Thank you for a wonderful 7 years of posts and I look forward to the future of your blog!
carolee c.
Congratulations on seven great years! I have enjoyed reading your blog and always find something new to see! Thanks to you and your generous sponsors for hosting such a wonderful giveaway!
Janet Beyea
A big congratulations on your seven years. I love your blog.....all your quilting as well as getting to know you and your family. I love the great pictures of all the quilts. I do a lot of appliqué, but I love looking at all styles of quilting. Wishing you another wonderful seven years!
Lori Morton
Happy Blogiversary!!! Don't change anything...your Blog is AWESOME! & I can't think of any cool things to add...you ace everything you share with us! I always feel like I just spent a fun visit with a gooood Friend! Please keep blogging & Creating & sharing!
Thanks for chance to win your Give-a-way too! 😀
Patti Olthoff
Can I just say that you and Jeni Baker were the first bloggers I followed.! You have inspired meso much and your bright and happy disposition just always shines through. Thank you for the giveaway and congratulations on 7 years!!
Maureen mangrum
So happy for your success! You are part of the reason I am quilting 🙂 Loved your series on "how to make a quilt from start to finish"; great info and so encouraging. Hope you continue on for many years to come!
Kelly Schaf
Congrats! 7 years is a lot of dedication! Hoping to take that giant leap very soon;) thanks for the give away!
Melanie C
I love seeing all your sewing related projects...even if they aren't finished yet- sneak peeks are great too!
Shannon
Congratulations Amy! I can honestly say that you are one of the most genuinely nice people that I have ever met!
I always love your blog and I love you! Here's to may more blog years!
Tarnia
Your blog was amongst the first handful I came across online, and I still read every post. Happy anniversary, thanks for sharing your quilty journal with us online.
Pam
Your blog is one of the best quilting blogs-very well written and I always look forward to reading your posts! I especially love your tutorials and would love to see more of those. Keep up the good work and thanks for the chance to win! Happy Blogiversary!!
Sarah
Hi Amy,
I have so enjoyed reading your blog over the last 3 years! Congratulations on the blogoversiry!
RaeLyn
Wow, Amy. What an accomplishment. You have been an inspiration to me for so long. I love that you have had so much success here!
My wish for the future is that you keep blogging! I'm not an instagrammer and it seems so many awesome bloggers are not really blogging anymore 🙁 Easier for them, I suppose. So my wish is to see what fun things you are doing in this space. Congratulations on 7 amazing years!
Chris
Happy Anniversary, how many posts do you think that has been? I am sure it has ben a lot. I love all the tutorials. I learn a lot so Thank-you.
Lynnette Hughes
How exciting for you - such a great accomplishment! I am so glad you took that leap 7 years ago - although I only found you a couple of years ago your blog is a continual source of inspiration and teaching. I appreciate the fact that you keep it real and down to earth for all your followers.
Barb
I love your blog. It's always the first one I look at. I always find something I would love to sew. Thanks and congratulations!!!
Karen Seitz
Amy - yours is the first blog I started following, and I have loved every post. Besides sharing tutorials and tips with all of us, you have generously answered specific questions I have emailed to you when working on one of your designs. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging, and I look forward to many more years of posts from you. Thank you for all you do for the quilting community!
Nancy
Congratulations on 7 years. It is interesting to look back to where were started from and see so much growth. I wish you many more wonderful years of blogging and quilting success, Amy!
Sumi P.
Congratulations on achieving your success doing something you love! You inspire me.
Rachell Reilly
Wow! Happy anniversary!
And that's a lot of loot! I'm still not the best blogger, nor have a lot of followers, but I have sure met so many friends by starting on my quilty blog journey, too!
reillyr2(at)hotmail(dot)com
Pamela Neal
I can't imagine asking you to do anything in addition to all you already do...what an inspiration you are. Thank you for this generous give away.
Sherry Fram
Congrats on seven years!!! I would like to see more of the same. I love the quilts, the stories & the sewing! Love your blog, it's one of my favorites!
Lisa Garrett
Congratulations! Quilting keeps me sane and I am so appreciative of this blog.
Alesha K
Like so many before me...Congratulations on 7 yrs. I enjoy reading your blog and have been inspired to "quilt outside " my comfort zone many times. Thank you for the generous giveaway and keep bloggin'! We love it!
DeborahGun
Many many congratulations! Your blog is one that I come back to again and again - thanks so much for sharing with us 🙂
Pamela Neal
I can't imagine asking you to do more than you already do. Thank you for the giveaway and happy anniversary to you!
Gina S
Congratulations on 7 years blogging! I am new to quilting and have enjoyed your blog for inspiration.
Your tutorials are very helpful. Thank you for a wonderful giveaway!
Mona Kuntz
Hi -- Love your blog and read it all the time. If you're looking for an idea, I'd love to see some variations on the orange peel pattern. I was thinking about doing it as flowers with green leaves, but I never liked the look. But I've been obsessed with it for a few months now, but running out of ideas. Would love to see what you come up with....Happy blogging anniversary!
Nela
Congrats on 7 years! I look forward to 7+ years more. I look forward to reading new ideas and your perspective on things. Thanks again. Keep making!
Beth T.
Happy blogiversary! It is a joy to take this journey with you.
What I enjoy most about this blog, and would love to continue to see, is two-fold: process-posts about your quilt projects, and glimpses of your life. I appreciate your voice, which is real and approachable and, as others have noted, very encouraging.
Colleen
I very much enjoy your blog and just hope you continue to share
and you are so lucky to be able to give away so much stuff , thank you and your sponsors
colleen1990atyahoodotcom
PONTAMOM
Look at all the love coming your way -- it's obvious how many not-so-imaginary friends you have made on your 7-year journey thus far. It is hard to improve upon perfection, so please just continue being you and sharing that with us, It's enough and we appreciate it!
Pam M
Yours is the only blog I subscribe to. I discovered it a few years ago and can truthfully say I get a little happy frisson when I see the link pop up in my Inbox - every time! So, a big g'day from across the pond, and happy blog birthday, anniversary, whatever you'd like to call it. What I'd like to see in your blog is my name as a winner tee hee! Seriously, keep on giving us glimpses into your quilting and home life - you seem to have struck a happy balance. Sharing is what it's all about, and yours is one of the best shares around. Thank you.
Lyssa
Thank you so much for 7 years of sharing insight, inspiration, and instructions! You have increased my interest in and intrigue for quilting as well as shown ingenious tricks and ideals. You instill a desire to try new things in spite of the possibility of inevitable problems. I love that you are real enough to insert some of the insanities of life as well as the incidents of perfection. Thank you! Inquiring minds want to know: what influences your designs?
lesley dean
WOW Amazing giveaway love your blog its perfect thank you.
Lynne Gladwell
Congratulations on your 7 year Anniveersary... i found you 3 years ago looking for a Union Jack ... I love your Blog...keep on going .....
Sue W.
Congrats!! Love your quilts!!
teri
Congratulations on blogging through 7 years! I always look forward to seing your posts and re-visiting old ones.
Linda
Congratulations on 7 years ! Love the content of your blog! Thank you for being such a blessing!
JoEllen
Happy 7th Anniversary!
All I ask is that you continue this blog. No "seven year itch". So many of the blogs I have enjoyed in the past have given up! I enjoy yours-here's to many more years!
ERIN MCSWEENEY
wow congrats on an amazing anniversary... I would really love to see some modern applique.
Sandra
Congratulations Amy. Thanks to your blog my quilting journey began two years ago. We moved from Canada to the Middle East for my husbands work and I decided to teach myself to quilt. Best decision ever!
Suggestion...quilt designs for teenagers please!
Donna W
Congrats on you 7 yr blogiversary. Enjoy your blog. Thanks
Laura
I am new to your blog so makes sense I am sneaking a comment in here just before midnight. Congratulations on your blogiversary! I've enjoyed everything I've read so far & hope you'll keep going for another 7.
Martina
Happy Anniversa
Cathy
Congratulations Amy! Yours was one of the first blogs I found when I started quilting 3 years ago, and I have learned so much from you. Keep on doing what you do! Xx
Sabine
I love your blog, your enthusiasm and the inspiration you are sharing. I would love to join a quiltalong with you - so that would be my wish for the blog.
Happy anniversary!
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Ivy
Congrats on 7 years of blogging.How wonderful to have 7 years documented!
Your blog is so inspirational it's one of the first I found when I went looking for quilting blogs.
Here's to many more years!
Cathy G.
Congratulations on your seventh anniversary! I have been sewing and quilting for a long time, but am fairly new to following blogs. Yours is one I follow regularly. It is really great to see so many young people interested in sewing and quilting. I find your tutorials informative and easy to follow. Thank you!
Susan carter
Congratulations! Your blog is very inspiring!
Megan
Congratulations on 7 years - I'm so glad you took the plunge and started this fabulous blog!
Kendra
Congratulations!! Love keeping up with your blog! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Lola
Congratulations on your blog !!!! You are a great inspiration for me. Thank you
Diane W.
Congrats on 7 years! I have enjoyed every bit of reading, but I especially love the pictures of your sweet children's faces! Just keep doing what you've been doing and I'll be a happy quilter.
Sincerely,
Diane from San Diego
Dorothy
Because I'm a weirdo, I've actually been reading your blog from the beginning (I just finished March 2012) since I stumbled across you a few weeks ago while searching for some tips for my first real quilt. Congratulations on 7 years and here's to many more!
Oh, right, suggestion. Um...maybe a quick cheater's guide to identifying patterns? I keep seeing different names of patterns and I've been able to figure out some of them, but there are just so many!
June g
Happy blogaversary! Thanks for sharing your ideas and creativity.
Renragjdatgmaildotcom
Lea
Congrats! Blogging takes a lot of time and planning. Many have left blogging completely and use only quick instagram posts. Thanks for your continued commitment and sharing your love of quilting. I look forward to many more years.
Jenny Cobbe
Yours is a truly inspirational blog, so glad you took the plunge seven years ago! Thank you for all you share. xx
Dawn j
7 years that's amazing, well done! I'm new to sewing and quilting only 6 months, and it's great to see the wealth of information online. I love your blog with all the great tips and variety of post, please just keep doing what you're doing - it's great.
Britt-inger
I have been following you for several years, almost since you started your blog. Your posts are always so inspiring.
I love to see more tutorials from you. Thank you
Britt-Inger in Sweden
Kim S
I love reading your blog because of all the beautiful projects you share. It inspires me. I really don't have anything to add to it.
Susan
Congratulations on your 7th anniversary! You have a wonderful blog that encourages so many! Thanks for the chance to win some of these great prizes!
Dovile
Congrats! And I'm so in love with your blog. I found it years ago, and when I need an inspiration I always come here, see your post, visit your tutorials and admire your quilts. What I would love to see more often is pictures behind your blog, where you sew, the mess that you sew in and some life stuff that happens around you. You're such an inspiration. Thank you for posting for these 7 years!
Nancy s
Happy blogiversary! I recently discovered your blog and, while 7 yrs old to you, it is all brand new to me. Thank you for being an inspiration to me. I am well beyond child rearing years, but had I the opportunity to have "imaginary friends ", as you call them, when my children were little, I may not have started quilting much earlier than I did. Congratulations and thanks again.
Jennifer Allison
I love your blog! You are so creative, thanks for sharing! I love small projects, things that can be done in a weekend.
Ruth
Congratulations on your anniversary! I really enjoy your blog and have followed along now for a few years. You have helped me become a better quilter. Your tutorials are clear and easy to follow. So are your patterns and your book, which I have by the way. I do not think I would change anything ...well, maybe more of it??? After reading your posts, I am motivated and inspired for more quilting. I have made several quilts inspire by your pictures and patterns. Just beautiful!
Jenny faasavalu
I LOVE your blog, Amy. It is my all time favorite. I love your personal posts, your photographs, your quilts, your faith, your love and compassion. I love your tutorials, your free patterns, and especially the inspiration I feel to quilt more and be a better person. At age 40 I have decided it's time to go back to college, so I won't be quilting a whole lot in the future, but this is one of those things where I am taking the plunge and jumping in without looking back. Thanks for your inspiration!
jenny f at
Jenny faasavalu
I LOVE your blog, Amy. It is my all time favorite. I love your personal posts, your photographs, your quilts, your faith, your love and compassion. I love your tutorials, your free patterns, and especially the inspiration I feel to quilt more and be a better person. At age 40 I have decided it's time to go back to college, so I won't be quilting a whole lot in the future, but this is one of those things where I am taking the plunge and jumping in without looking back. Thanks for your inspiration!
jenny f at q dot com
AnitA
Congrats on 7 years! Your blog was one of the first I started following and thoroughly enjoy your posts. Keep them coming 🙂
Renee
Love your blog
Happy anniversary
Wendy rance
Congratulations on your blogs anniversary, quite an achievement. Thank you and your sponsors for the opportunity to win. I look forward to reading your blog for the next 7 years ?
Sibylle
Hello,
Happy Blog Anniversary. I like the way you write and let us have little glimpse in your work and family life. It is allways an inspiration. I like the blog the way it is, but I would never say no to more tutorials 🙂 Best from Germany
S.
michelle
Your blog is inspiring but I have to say, my most favorite thing about this particular blog is the picture with the little feet sticking out from under your sewing table! So precious!
cheryl north
I always look forward to the lovely articles you write. You have a real knack for not only sewing, but for words as well. I enjoy your sweet spirit, humor and outlook. Keep up the great work you are doing by providing this site for quilters!!... Cheryl
Liesl Carlson
Congrats on the your anniversary!! I have only found your blog and quilting a little over a year ago. Thank you so much for sharing and teaching. Keep it up. Also what a great give away.
Again Thank you
Dorothy h
Happy blogoversary! Yours is one of the few blogs I follow. I adore your quilts and posts!
Liz Bayes
Congrats to you!! Love your blog. I am new to quilting and not only are you an inspiration, the info on the blog is a huge help to the newbie! Thanks.
Martha Cook
Thank you Amy for sharing yourself and your goodies. Love the photo of you and your kids. You have a gift and a love for creativity that shines brightly. Congrats on your nomination. Wow what a high!
Vicki
Happy Anniversary! I love your blog. You are so down to earth. Thank you for this giveaway!
Aubrey
Congratulations on 7 great years!!! It's amazing where we land when we just jump. May you eighth year be filled with blessings, fun and more fabric.
Marcia
Happy anniversary and thanks for the wonderful giveaway
Phyllis
Congratulations on 7 years! I enjoy your blog and read it first thing in the morning. Thanks for the helpful tips and tutorials. Keep it up.
SterlIng labosky
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post! I don't have a blog, but could totally relate to the "just jumping right in" part. I've started creating my own patterns and doing long arm quilting for others and getting paid for it! It's hard to imagine that I will actually be quilting for a career and saying bye, bye to waiting tables for good, but I truly believe it is possible now. I did like you said and just went for it, and I'll figure it all out as I go. Learning is part of the journey and the fun!
Deb M
Happy Blogiversary, Amy! Wow, seven years of blogging...that is fabulous!! And a giveaway as well! Congratulations and thank you!
TaNya hamel
Happy 7th Blogiversary!!! Thank you for sharing and being inspirational to sew (pun intended) many of us. More free patterns are always nice ?!
Melissa
Congratulations! I really enjoy reading your blog. Your style and fabric selection really appeals to me and I get very inspired reading it. I've been debating starting a blog for the last 6 months (social media kind on terrifies me) but hearing how much you've enjoyed it is definitely encouraging!
Jane
Your blog, the ideas and the open and generous way you share them is an inspiration. You are right it is very easy to sit down and develop a quilt on your own and blogs like yours open a community to those of us who are more isolated geographically. I thank you for your contribution to our world. I love seeing your colourful creations and will always want to see more.
Marybeth
Congratulations. I like reading your blog. Besides being informative, I like how you talk about being busy with your family and still fitting in sewing.
Teresa Palmer
Woot, woot 7 years, that's awesome!! I struggle sometimes selecting the "right" pattern to go with my fabric selection. I'd love some guidance in that area. Thanks for the opportunity!
Kate
Wow, the sheer number of comments on this out and your blogging birthday testifies to your place in the sewing world's heart! I know I love to open your posts, as a transplant from Maine to Sweden, and find a (english speaking) offering of sewing wisdom as well as widths and lengths.Bravo.
Jean
I love to quilt and enjoy blogs that focus on quilting. I enjoy your enthusiasm and your creative ideas.
Jean Thompson
" I just LOVE looking at all the Projects as well as Reading your Blog... The Pictures bring you right into my World of Wish I could do that or Love that Fabric."! ! ! ! ..
Linda Nowak
Happy Blogiversary! Love this blog, I truly look forward to reading each day. I'm no longer in the stay-at-home Mom phase of life but love hearing about the experiences of others who are taking the time to enjoy hands-on time with their families.
Great tutorials, beautiful fabric recommendations. Fun.
Thanks.
Jennifer
Congrats on the 7 years! Love your quilts
Susan
Your blog was inspiration for me when I started sewing again after 15-20 year space. The new techniques that you and others like you demonstrate have enabled me to jump back in. Thank you.
Carol
Congrats on the blog and thanks for the inspiration
Amy Renee Nicosia
Love your blog, great job and happy anniversary!! It would be great to win and create something with one of the prizes!
Angela B.
Congratulations - we are all glad you took this chance 7 year ago! Hope you continue having fun along the way!
Janice
Happy blogiversary! I just found your blog through the blog lovin awards and have been enjoying your posts. I always like to see projects in progress. Thanks for the opportunity to win something fun!
JoAnn
Congrats ! Really enjoy your blog and love all your projects. You have such incrediable talent and I strive to do as well.
Cindy
Congrats on 7 years! I enjoy reading your blog and your great projects.
Jane Thomas
Happy Blog Birthday. I get my daily fix of wonderment and ideas from your post that lands in my email box. I would love to see tons of pictures of how you and your friends showcase your quilts both on the bed and any other way. Thank you for this fabulous giveaway!
Sandy N
Happy Blogiversary! I love reading your blog and seeing what you're working on. Thanks so much for the generous giveaway!
Cheri
Congratulations! You were the first blog I ever followed. Through your blog you introduced me to other quilters and brought me into a whole new world that now includes Instagram. I can't thank you enough for taking the plunge 7 years ago. You have helped me grow as a quilter and I'm sure there are thousands more just like me. ??????????
Michele
Happy Blogiversary! When I started quilting again a couple of years ago, blogs like yours were what really got me motivated and trying some new styles and fabrics. I'd love to keep seeing more of your great quilts!
Cathy
Dearest Amy! Happy, happy Anniversary! WOW! 7 years for your blog is fantastic! I so enjoy reading your posts, seeing your quilts, pictures, and tutorials. I enjoy all the things you do and are involved with! I really enjoy seeing new fabric lines, new books you discuss, and new tools too. Thanks for keeping us all entertained!!! 🙂
Diana
Wow 7 years! Congratulations. I think I started quilting 7 years ago and found your blog about a year later. It was fabulous to find younger quilters with a fresh approach and have loved seeing your projects. Looking forward to doing one of your classes at quiltcon next year. I'd love to get more ideas of how to tackle the large stash that I have accumulated, as there seem to be many fabrics that just don't quite 'go' . Here's to another 7 years !
Judy Sigsworth
Happy blogiversary! I've been following you blog for a few years now, and still look forward to seeing your posts appear in my email. You provide so much inspiration. Thanks for being one of my bloggy friends! And thanks to you and your sponsors for the great giveaways.
Judy
Congratulations on your blogaversary. I really enjoy reading about your projects every week. Looking forward to seven more years!
Linda S
7 years--congratulations! I've been following you for a little over a year now, enjoy the pictures, the projects, the insights, and the quilts. Hope you go on for many more years.
Kathryn M
Whoohoo! Congrats and Happy Blogiversary!!!!
Beth Ward
What an amazing ride you've had! I've only been quilting fir the past 18 months and yours was one of the first blogs I subscribed too. Finding people "like me" is like you described Dorothy. Congratulations on seven years and wishing you another seven. BYW-amazing give away.
Gilda
What an amazing journey you've had. Looking forward to many more years of your lovely blog! Congratulations, Amy!
Amanda
Happy Blogiversary Amy!!! I absolutely love your blog (it's one of my favorites for sure!). I am so happy you decided to take the plunge and start a blog, yours is one of the reasons I decided to do it myself 🙂 I love all of your quilts and especially tutorials. I think those are so useful to new quilters trying to learn. The step by step instructions and photos are often the easiest to follow. Kudos to you!
Stacy
Amy-Love your blog and very happy for you! you are fantastic!! stacy
Melissa Decker
Hello! Congratulations on your seventh anniversary! I'm excited for you! I always look forward to reading your entries; you inspire me!
Helen @ Till We Quilt Again
It has been fun watching you grow over the years. Kinda feels like we grew up to together! I am not sure what more I would like to see except for you to keep doing what you are doing. The Love & Passion shines through. Congratulations on 7 Wonderful Years!
marcia burt
Happy #7! congrats for doing such a fantastic job with your blog! Here's wishing you many more years of happy blogging!
Pam Hunter
Congratulations on seven years of sharing your passion! I have been following you for quite some time ... well, really lurking, and you are such a positive voice in the quilting/sewing community. While I am in a different "season of life" with two children who have graduated college and my youngest just entering college, I'm ready to now "just jump in". Thank you for your words of wisdom and sharing your talents with those of us who are older but still "beginners". Good luck to everyone! Now I am headed to those half-priced PDF quilt patterns 🙂
Terry
I'm so thankful that I found your blog. I look forward seeing your lovely quilts and photos. Well done you on 7 years blogging.... You have a wonderful way of writing where it seems we could be having a chat over a cuppa. Thank you for this amazing giveaway and look forward to the next 7 years following your quilting fun and travels
Camille
Congratulations on your blogiversary! Thank you for inspiring and motivating me. I love the ideas you share with us, your virtual friends. Keep up the great work. I'd love to see you host a qal sometime.
Janeanne
So happy for all of your successes! Please continue to write. I especially love your tutorials and patterns!
Erica cooper
I absolutely love your blog. You make things that the rest of us real life people who work and have kids can do. Instead of some bloggers that this is their full time job and they make quilts that are off the hook amazing, but none of us could finish them in a year.
Winona
Love Love the picture of one of your children's little feet! I look forward to hearing from you 🙂
Becky Babcock
Congratulations on 7 years - wow! You inspire me to be a more modern quilter through your patterns and choice of fabrics - thanks for getting me out of a rut! I appreciate your tutorials so I hope you continue those. Thanks for the great giveaway!
Jodie
Congratulations! I always enjoy seeing your original quilts.
Diane
Congratulations on your Seven Year Anniversary. What a great giveaway! I enjoy reading your blog. Keep it up!
dixie frantz
Happy 7th Anniversary! I just hit 3 years and I have to say it is fun and lots of work! I love your tutorials and color combinations! I also love your Fabulously Fast Quilts book! Hope you are coming to the Quilt Festival later this month in Houston!
Cathy
A milestone indeed - many congrats! Yours is one of the first blogs I started following, and appreciate that you are still going strong here vs the hourly Instagram bombardments other bloggers have gone to. Instagram and other social media just don't provide enough details. More of the same posts please!
Chris matsche
Amy, your blog was one of the first quilting blogs I started reading. I have used your tutorials to learn how to quilt. I look forward to you posts. Thank you for all of you hard work. Matsche.christine@yahoo.com.
Betsy
Congratulations on seven years! I enjoy reading your blog. Thank you for great posts and wonderful pictures.
Celeste delostrinos
Seven years is quite an accomplishment. Thank you for sharing your talent and creativity.
Laurie ruttle
Congratulations!!
I read your blog faithfully and love every word, I have used many tutorials and love them, I also bought your book and guess what? ..... I love that too:)
Thank you for everything ?
Vicki Gensini
I am new to your blog and new to quilting. I'm glad you went out of your comfort zone. Enjoy it very much.
Kathleen
Congratulations on your 7 years of blogging. What a great adventure. I enjoyed your blog on your new sewing space and would like to see more on how you organize and or how you keep organized. I also love all of your tutorials. I always learn something new.
Thanks for the chance to win one of these fantastic prizes.
Leslie
Congratulations, Amy, on your 7 year anniversary! I have learned so much from your blog as I have returned to sewing, as well as learning how to quilt. I often look through your tutorials if I am unsure about a sewing/quilting process. Thanks for all you do and the clear explanations that you give!
Angela milazzo
Love your blog. Your quilts are an inspiration!
Emilee
Congrats! Just keep doing what you do-I love your blog!!!
Annielou
Congratulations on seven years! I love your blog and check in frequently to see what you're doing. I love your creations! I wish the blog universe had been there when I was home with little ones. Better late than never.
Mimm
Seven years ago I had just quit my job and moved to the middle of Nowhere Kansas. I had dial-up internet and could barely load e-mail. The blogasphere was not in my realm, nor was internet shopping. Things changed drastically for us after a fire and relocation for awhile, and I found broadband and in the process lots of those "imaginary" friends--suddenly I was no longer in the middle of Nowhere.
Congratulations to you on this amazing accomplishment... all because you stepped out of your comfort zone as an at home mom. Hope you have many more great years!!! I've enjoyed your books, patterns and inspirational blog. Thank you!
Alexis Percle
Happy Blog-Anniversary! I just found your blog recently and have enjoyed looking over your past posts and look forward to future posts. 🙂
Elaine
I truly your blog posts and am very glad that you took the plunge 7 years ago.
Lindsey Brake
Congratulations and thank you! I thoroughly enjoy reading your blog. You inspire and give pause for thought.
Elaine M.
7YEARS - WOW! Congratulations on your 7 year "blog anniversary". I have purchased several of your patterns and they are wonderful to work with and you color ideas are so beautiful. Thank you for taking the plunge 7 years ago and never stop. You inspire any of us.
Shari K.
Congrats! I thoroughly enjoy your blog and look forward to getting that email that a new blog is available. On the technical side, I would like to see your tutorials have a Printer friendly or PDF version (without all the comments). So much easier! Thanks for all the work you put into your blog and for sharing the patterns and examples with us. I love lots of pictures!
Joyce Carter
Congratulations Amy. I love reading your blog and seeing all your tutorials i really would enjoy seeing more baby quilts. As a grandmother, there are lots of them to be made. Thanks for the awesome giveaway.
Diane
Seven years and still going strong! Thanks for staying with it and giving us great information. And thanks for the give-away! All the best!
Kim
Congratulations! I'm a fairly new reader, but I am LOVING your blog. As a brand-new quilter, your tutorials are like a gold mine to me! I can't think of anything specific I'd like to see...just more!
Aubrey
Congrats to you! Your blog is one of my absolute favorites! It is so inspiring! =) Thanks for the chance to win those amazing goodies!
chantelle C. Saxby
Happy Anniversary! I would LOVE to win something!! Thanks for the opportunity!
Denise Park
Wow, what a great giveaway. I haven't been following you long but love your blog. Congrats on your anniversary and here's hoping you have many more ?
Kate
Congratulations Amy! I love seeing an email when you've written a new blog post! I am a new quilter and a young mom. You inspire me to quilt because it's fun. I especially loved your recent all things fall post! I'm looking foward to seeing your Christmas pattern collection. Congrats again! - Kate
Kate
Congrats on 7 years of discovery & quilting! May you have many more years and quilts to come!
Debbie rhodeso
Love your blog. Would like to see how you organize your supplies. Your such a great inspiration
Bev d
Congratulations on a wonderful 7 years. The comments show what an inspiration you are to many quilters. I love your tutorials and product reviews so would love more of those. I enjoy the visual feast of colour and fabric from the blog. It's great!!! Thanks so much for making the leap.
Toni Leli
Love your Blog -- I've learned so much. Have you ever tried an improvisational modern quilt?
Amy L
Congratulations! It's been my pleasure to share the quilting journey on your excellent blog. Your fresh, modern vintage flare is comforting and touchable, just how I like my quilts. I especially love it when you blog about your process - fabric selection, block construction and the finishing. Keep up the great work!
Cheri Barker
Happy Anniversary! Thanks for the inspiration over the years!
Nancy B
I can't imagine the dedication to write, create and maintain a blog, especially one as creative and informative as yours. Congratulations on 7 great years, hope to be able to read and enjoy it for many more!
terry phelps
Amy, I love your blog your was one of the first i started reading. I also enjoy your tutorials, they make it so easy to follow. I love the simple patterns and letting the fabric take alot of the credit. Keep up the good work and i will be a devoted follower and thanks for the giveaway.
Amy Goldstone
Congrats on the 7 years! I've only recently found your blog, but I enjoy it so much! I'm off to go check out some of your patterns and use that 50% off coupon. Thank you!!!! Here's to another 7 years!
Suzie
Congrats on your anniversary! What amazing giveaways! I am hoping your post inspires to me start writing my own blog! Been thinking of it for a while.
Ann D
Congratulations. Still going strong after seven years is a big accomplishment. Kudos to you.
Shelley
Happy blogiversary. Love all that you do on your blog. As for suggestions-I enjoy small projects that can be put together quickly. Thanks for hosting this MOST generous giveaway.
Anita CarOl gambrell
Congratulations on your 7 years! I love reading your blog, I get it through email updates. Email is the only thing I actually read on a daily basis! Unless there is no power..... Ha! Well on to the giveaway, please just keep adding photographs! I love quilting and photography! Yours are great! Thanks again for the chances and for sharing your blog!
Julie a
Happy anniversary!
Carolyn J
Your blog is one that I look forward to reading in my morning email. I think your appeal is that you are 'real' and down to earth and I love your ideas and your projects. Congratulations on seven successful years and looking forward to the next seven!
BABs
It's people like you who have enriched my retirement and kept me company. Thank you.
Jackie Papallo
Congratulations on your first seven years! Thank you for sharing your talents with all of us. Time just flies by doesn't it. Here's to your next seven!
Grisel Martinez
GORGEOUS! GORGEOUS! GORGEOUS WORK! Your blog is an INSPIRATION TO ME. I think your appeal is that you are ‘real’ and down to earth and I love your ideas and your projects. Congratulations on seven successful years! Wishing you many many more. Keep up with your GREAT & GORGEOUS work.
T_Bun
I love your blog! It's an inspiration for a beginner like myself.
Shirley
Congratulations.......... and thank you for an awesome blog. Love your quilt patterns, and the generous tutorials. May you continue on for many more years.
Daria
Happy 7th Anniversary on your blog! I truly admire all that you do. Congratulations!!!
rebecca
So Happy for you.....yee haw.....
I love looking at what you've made, what your working on, and all the new fabrics! thank you for an awesome giveaway!!!!!
Glenda
Congratulations on your anniversary!
Pattie C
Congratulations on sticking with it for 7 years. Things have really changed in the blogging world in this time. So many people are only on instagram or other outlets and I have no desire to look at tiny pictures on my phone so I'm glad there are still quilting blogs. Awesome giveaway by the way, thanks.
April
Congrats on 7 years!!! I used your beginner's quilting series to start my very first quilt! It took me about a year and a half to finish, but I finished several other quilts in the meantime. Thank you for helping me jump into my new favorite hobby! I'm still learning, and I have a long way to go, but you made it much less intimidating to start.
Katy(LethargicLass)
Congrats on 7 years! I always love seeing snippets of what people are working on 🙂
Alexis
Seven years! Woot! Congratulations, what an accomplishment! I really enjoy following your blog. Your voice seems true and sincere. I enjoy seeing the evolution of your projects and learning about new techniques from you. Looking forward to seven more years!
Karen Erickson
As a brand new quilter, I love your blog, love your quilts and love that you have stayed devoted for seven years! Your tutorials are easy to follow and very inspiring. Thank you so much for taking time out of your every day life to share a few moments with us the readers. This is an awesome giveaway and much appreciated. Please keep up the good work and Happy Blogiversary!
Sherry
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging. I have been blogging for about the same amount of time. I have enjoyed visiting and been inspired by reading your blog. I have been a long time follower and will continue to come back and visit. So many wonderful things in your giveaway.
Kathleen
Congrats! I can't think of anything more I would like to see on the blog. But I did enjoy that picture of the little feet sticking out from underneath your sewing table in the old picture!! Maybe post a flashback picture every now and then. That might be fun.
Thanks for the opportunity to win one of these amazing prizes!!
Arianna M.
Congratulations! I love reading your blog. Thanks for blogging and offering such great prizes!
Marcella
I check your blog daily - love your fresh patterns.
Patty Ruettgers
You have been an inspiration for me since I found you online a year ago. I've made a couple of the giant star quilts and am learning how to make other HST quilts. Congratulations and thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Annie McCloskey
I am SO glad you started this blog! Follow you always!
Your work is so happy and colorful.
rosie
well done, you---wonderful patterns and ideas--thanks for these years
Melita Ellington
So, just to let you know, there's no such thing as "too much fabric", lol. I call mine my "Resource Center." I would love to see you blog on a totally repurposed quilt from upcycled clothing (or other items). While I do love all the fabric in my Resource Center, I would also like to stop buying so much stuff and utilize some of the things I already have. (Can you tell I've been watching off-griders on tv?!?) Thanks, and love the blog!
Janie
Thank you for taking the time to get to know your followers likes and dislikes. You always have a very creative blog. I have never been bored reading and following along on your ideas or tutorials. Thanks for keeping things fresh. Congratulations!
Rachel
Congrats on 7 years! Its been so fun to see what you make.
Corrie tollett
I love your blog, your tutorials, your commitment to service and your quilts!! Congrats on 7 years!!
Kristi
Congratulations on seven years of blogging! I've followed your blog for several years and have enjoyed reading about your quilting and travels. Keep up the great work! Thanks for the fantastic giveaways; you and your sponsors are the best.
Annemarie
Wow. Seven years. Congrats.
Mary Jane
Congratulations! I really enjoy your blog and your work, I just don't know how you find the time to do all that you do. You have a beautiful family. In the immediate future I would love to see some mini projects and/or some pillows. Thank you for asking. Again, congratulations and best wishes for your future.
Elizabethdee
Congratulations! And thank you, for all the help and encouragement I've found in your blog and in your wonderful book. Whatever you choose to write about is fine with me, although I do especially like your tutorials. Thanks!
Candace
Thanks for the entry for a chance to win. I always enjoy tutorials and quilt alongs.
Julia T
I, too, enjoy your blog. You provide so much inspiration for new and experienced quilters. I've sewn all my life but started quilting in earnest about a year ago. My first quilt was my (grown) daughters Christmas quilt-it was the first time in her life that I witnessed her cry over a gift! It made my Christmas and started my quilting addiction. So, congratulations on 7 great blog years and please, keep doing what you've been doing to guide and inspire the rest of us.
Sarah
Congrats on your 7 years of contributing to the quilting community!
Claire
Wow! Congrats on 7 years! Your blog was one of the first I found when I started quilting a few years ago and I still love it 🙂
Donna S.
Yay for 7 years of blogging! I love reading your posts about quilts you've made, tutorials, or whatever you're up to. Thanks for all the effort you put into making it fun and for a pretty cool giveaway. I'll be following along!
Carolyn
Love your quilts and tutorials.
Shan
Congratulations! You are a wonderful teacher for a new quilter like me. Your blog is my first go to whenever I need ideas and help. I would like to see more tutorials and quit along and vacations!!!
Marissa C.
Happy Anniversary! Here's to another 7 more! =)
Jocelyn
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog and it is one of the reasons I started quilting!
Shauna
Congrats on 7 years!!!! I love seeing tutorials, even for simple things, because I still feel like I have lots to learn.
DeAnna
Congratulations on 7 years, your one of the best quilters to blog. I have made several of your free tutorials and they are great. Its so cool to be apart of the quilting community.
DeAnna
Brianna
Thank you for starting your blog! I felt adrift in my quilting until the magical day when I too discovered the world of quilt blogs! Keep doing what you do!
Judith
Oh My Gosh...what an awesome give-away! Congrats for doing a great job. You are one of my favorite blogs. I am always happy when you post. Keep up the great work.
Katy
Happy Anniversary!! I love your blog!!
Pattie
Bravo, Amy! Here's to another seven years of creativity and fun (and I wouldn't change a thing about your blog!)
Susan
Seven years! Amazing. I stumbled on your blog a couple of years ago when i first started quilting. Although I appreciate the tutorials and all the quilting advice, I do enjoy the story of your life.
Lisa E
I love your blog! I'm so happy you created it 7 years ago! This is the most amazing giveaway and pattern sale so thank you for that too. I really enjoy hearing about the creative design process, so keep on doing that on your blog! Now I'm off to buy some patterns...
Nancy K
Thanks for all of your great tutorials, Amy! I love your book!
Happiest of anniversaries!
Laura
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging - quite an accomplishment! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and inspiration with us.
Rosemary
Hi, not even sure how I found you, maybe Pinterest. I am just glad I did. Enjoy everything here and am so inspired by your work. Thanks for blogging and taking the plunge 7 years ago. I love your idea to share the joy of sewing and blogging with all of us and of course we all love prizes.
Rosemary
Hi, I think Pinterest is how I found your blogging and sewing site. Enjoy so much, a treat in my day. Maybe another treat from your giveaway, thanks.
Karen
I'm new to quilting and find your blog so helpful, inspirational, educational, etc. Thanks. And thank you, thank you, thank you for making your patterns available for half price!!
Lori
Love your blog - congrats on 7 years!! Your Giant Indie Star is still one of my all-time favorites...I've made a couple as gifts but still need to do one for myself. Keep up the good work!
Kyla Olson
I love your projects and ideas. Congrats!!
Nicole Sender
Happy 7 Year Blogiversary! I love tutorials! Your blog is fun to follow!
Mary Graff
Congrats on 7 years! What an amazing gift for one lucky reader. I always have an abundance of jelly rolls so I'm always looking for new ways to use them. Thanks!
Rachael
Just started following you a couple of weeks ago. Glad i found you!
Marlae
Congratulations on 7 years of writing your blog and all your accomplishments! ! ! I enjoy the variety of projects that you share on the blog. Keep up the GREAT work!!
debbie
Happy Anniversary Amy!
I enjoy your quilting so much. I have been inspired and learned so much from your blog! My heart is full of inspiration from your quilting!
Lorinda Davis
Happy Blogiversary! I'm so happy you took the plunge those 7 years ago. I learned to quilt online from you and other bloggers like you, so THANK YOU!!!!
Sara
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog you are an inspiration!!!
Nyla-Jean
I've enjoyed reading you so I'm glad you've enjoyed writing. Blessings!
Jacqueline
Hi there Amy,
Awesome giveaway girrrrl!!!!
I am so glad you asked what we would like to see as I had just been thinking of messaging a request to you…how weird is that???
I REALLY, REALLY loved your "30 gifts for quilters" post last December and I may have(ahem) emailed it to certain people who NEED to be told what to give(the Hubs…ahem, again!). So, my heartfelt request is that you do a similar posting again…so that some of us can get ideas and possibly email the list to our other halfs!
Thanks so much!
Quilty Huggs,
Jacqueline
Rachel Hubbard
Who wouldn't want to win one of those great prizes?! I think you're fantastic, Amy! Your website helped me venture into the world of quilting which has been my FIRST real hobby that I chose and love! Thank you, thank you for creating and keeping up with this blog so those of us who check in can learn from you.
Missy
Congrats on 7 years. What an awesome prize package.
Ella
Congrats! I always enjoy reading your blog!
Kathie L
Congratulations. I love reading your blog and have enjoyed your book. I'd love to see some ways to display quilts in my home. My spare rooms are over run and I'd like to have more out and about in the living area.
Kathie L
TIRZAH
HI I'D LIKE TO BE ENTERED IN YOUR DRAWING. I LIKE TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE WORKING ON.
THANKS FOR YOUR HARD WORK ON THE BLOG.
TIRZAH
Carrie mayer
Congrats on seven years! I always look forward to checking your blog. Thank you for all your inspiration!
audrey
I love your blog. I always enjoy tutorials, so more of those would be great! I also like to see patterns done in more than one colorway. Thanks for the chance to win so many awesome giveaways!!!
Jo West
Congratulations for 7 years, that is very impressive. I am a long arm quilter and do lots of custom quilts for people. My kids are grown, I do have a two year old grandson who lives 5 minutes from me, but no way could I accomplish what you do. A family, a blog, quilting, patterns etc. Hats off to you.
Jessica
Congratulations!! Your blog has always been so inspiring to me! I started seriously quilting about 3 years or so ago, and your blog was one of the first I started regularly following along with. You're amazingly talented, but yet so down to earth and sweet (even though I've never met you, I can tell!), I always love reading what you have to say :).
Maureen
I'll keep it simple - I LOVE YOUR BLOG!! Thanks for what you do!
Doreen
Congratulations! I'd love to see a couple of your favorite quilts from your early years and then from your later years. Also, I'd love to see a side by side pic of your kids then and now. That really shows how time flies!
Gale W.
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog. Awesome giveaway..............thanks for a chance to win.....oh my goodness!!!
Jessica
Congrats! Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration. I can't wait to see what you do in the future.
bARBARA
Congratulations on 7 years. While I haven't been following you for all those years I am a dedication reader now. Hope you continue your blog for many years.
Becky
A friend just introduced me to your blog and I love it! So fun to see the projects of a mom with kids spending her few spare moments at the sewing machine.
AngieSue
Congratulations! I love tutorials and lots of photos - I've really enjoyed reading your blog (but I only discovered the blogging world about 4 years ago)!
Carmeleta Beidler
I love your blog. Thanks for sharing all your ideas with us. Wishing you at least 7 more.
holly
Congrat
holly
Congrats on seven years! I have enjoyed your blog and quilts since I found your site a few years ago. Happy for you on your success!
Stephanie w.
Congratulations on your milestone! I truly enjoy your blog and seeing all of your finished quilts. Your fabric choices and patterns are always very inspiring. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity.
Denise Boyle
Congratulations on 7 years! Keep showing us what you're working on...it's so inspiring!
Pam D
I've looked through some of your older posts--so much good info and inspiration! Your work is lovely.
I love the scrappy quilts the best and would enjoy seeing more of them.
Gail
Congratulations on 7 years and thanks for the opportunity to win the great gifts!
Sara
I discovered your blog through the Bloglovin'Awards and voted for you and all that you do with your blog! I've many times thought of starting my own blog but then I'd really get nothing done! I enjoy reading your blog and I am inspired every time I visit! Thank You for offering your patterns at a wonderful price I will be purchasing before deadline. Thank You for doing what you do and keep doing what you love!
Marti
Congratulations and thank you! I remember doing a random search and coming across your "How to quilt from start to finish" series and deciding to try quilting. Sometimes I buy a fabric that I love but can't figure out how to showcase it, maybe somthing about how build a design around a focal fabric?
Debbie
Amy, Thank you, thank you for taking the plunge 7 years ago -- my favorite thing about your website is looking at the "quilts I've made" -- I'm inspired by the collage of quilts every time I look at it -- and it's been many times! I'd love to see you show and tell about quilts you've made -- even from long ago as I've only been following along for a short while. And please oh please write another book! Your book is still my favorite -- and I have quite a shelf full of books -- your patterns are super logical to me! Thanks again!
Deb
kim s
You write a great blog! I hope you keep on, because it is wonderful.
Pam
Wow! Happy Anniversary. Your blog is wonderful and very inspirational. I have recommended you to a number of my friends. I look forward to many more years and fun sewing projects to come!
Thanks!
Deborah DeBerry`
Happy Blogiversary!!! Over the past few years I have enjoyed reading your blog and have felt as if I am hearing from a friend. What you share with us, both design and timewise is pretty awesome. I am astounded each day by how much you are able to accomplish for not only us, but your family as well. I'm feeling extremely old and unfortunately getting slower by the day, but you lift me up, and help to restore my spirit, so that when I see a lovely quilt here, I tend to think "I can do that". Thank you for sharing your family, your time and your talent with us and may you have many more years ahead.
laurarieben
Great seven years! Keep up the good work!
Lace Faerie
Congrats on the big anniversary! It's been a fun ride! Thanks for the chance of winning some celebratory loot! You've got great sponsors!
Kris
I'm a new reader but love your blog! Can't wait to see what comes up in the future! Keep writing!
Patty
Love your blog. You encourage me so much.
I'd love to see more fast and easy quilts (especially with precuts). That's how I have to roll these days.
Morgan
Congratulations on 7 years! It's always exciting to see how you've grown when you look back at the past. It's very cool to see how far you've come!
Melinda
Congrats on 7 years! I love your blog and I'd love to do a quilt a long.
Alie clark
I have just found your blog and I totally get what you mean about finding new friends! Quilters are such great people!
Carol
Congrats on your anniversary! Love your blog!
Lois
Congratulations on 7 wonderful years - I browse here often for inspiration :). And thanks for such a wonderful give-away in celebration.
Candy radford
Hi Amy,
I absolutely LOVE your blog. Yours is one of the first blogs I started following 4 years ago when I was learning how to quilt and it remains one of my top favs. I've learned so much from you! Love your work, your writing, your pictures, your patterns and LOVE your Good Neighbors fabric line! Congrats on 7 years!!
Rachel Armstrong
Thank you for the opportunity to enter the giveaway! Your quilting is amazing and I'm inspired by the Leap you took seven years ago! May you experience Continued success and personal growth!
Brenda Ackerman
I totally understand what you have gone through with starting up a blog. I am restarting my blog and the going is just as tough as before. But so many new ideas and so many new people make it that much more exciting. I am really thrilled to have discovered your blog and thoroughly enjoy reading every post and tutorial that you have. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas, your family and your personality that make every part of your blog come together and make it what it is. Such a spectacular give away you are having, I would be thrilled to be chosen for any one of the awesome prizes. My advice is just continue doing what you do and share what you share. Have a wonderful creative day! brend_ack@yahoo.com
Melissa
Congratulations on 7 years of awesomeness! What a fun giveaway, thanks you for the chance
Patrice Switzer
How great that you have this journal with photos of your family's growth and your professional growth too. Thanks so much for sharing your journey.
Patrice
Mary
Congratulations! I'm so glad you jumped in with both feet as I love reading your blog posts. I hope to see you teaching at a local quilt festival in the next year or so and then I'll be able to take a class. Keep doing what you do best but do some challenges, to
Vicki l
Yes, so true...getting it done is better than perfect. Your blog is such an inspiration, refreshing. Wishing you seven more years of successful blogging.
Dawn Nelson
Congratulations on your 7 year blog anniversary!!!! I have surely enjoyed reading it for the last 5 years since I found it.
Robin
Congratulations on your 7th anniversary! Your blog is one of the first quilting blogs I discovered, and it is my favorite. Thank you for sharing with all of your "imaginary" friends!
Stephanie
Happy blogging anniversary! I enjoy your posts. Hope you pick me.
Dora
Congrats to you – I love your blog and all your projects!!
Tary B.
Congrats on 7 years! I love following along with your blog. I have only been quilting for a few years, and you have been huge inspiration to me. I was not sure I could do it, but I "jumped right in" and am having so much fun. Thanks again for sharing your journey with us, I look forward to you posts!
gerry
What a wonderful blog! I just happened upon it and so glad I did!!
alicia
Congratulations and thank you for sharing your talents with us. You are an inspiration!
Linda
Congratulations on your 7 years of blogging! I always admire your energy and spirit--it shows in your interesting quilts and in the adventures you share with us every day. I hope I can win some of your giveaway goodies! Blog on!!
Sue
Congratulations on your 7 years of blogging! I just found your blog today and will become a follower now! Thank you for the chance to win one of the great prizes! I would love any of them!
Bridget Myers
Both your work and words are inspiring! I love your fabric choices and eye. Please write another quilting book! Fabulously Fast Quilts is awesome!
Keep blogging!
Pam C
Congratulations! Love the picture of you sewing with the little ones feet sticking out from under the table. Wonderful giveaways...thanks for the chance to win.
Bridget M
Happy Anniversary! You have a great astethic fun style!
Keep blogging!
suellen Franze
Amy, your blog is my favorite. Please keep it up!
Valarie
Thank you for taking the blog plunge and Congratulations on 7 years! You have been on the top of my favorites lists since I discovered you about four years ago. I so enjoy your quilty style; you have inspired me....please continue doing what you do so well!
Valarie
Shirley
Your blog is on my daily check
In list. Keep up the great bog. Thanks
Cindy
What a wonderful, generous celebration from all of you! Thank You and Congratulations on 7 years!! I have been following your blog for a very long time now. I started quilting awhile back after losing my job. I was amazed to see that quilts were modern and fun and I was bound and determined to learn how to quilt! Your blog was one of the first that drew me in with all of your inspiration and great tutorials. I have learned so much from you and deeply appreciate your time and effort in all you shared and still share! I now take great pride and satisfaction when I finish a quilt! I'm still somewhat slow and I haven't tackled too many large quilts but I have made a few and have gifted quite a few smaller baby quilts! How fun is that!! Thank You again and good wishes for many more years with your blog!:)
Shauna S
Congrats on your anniversary. This blog has helped me start in the wonderful world of quilting. I have found so much helpful information on your blog that has made the quilting process easier for me. I drool over your quilts and love seeing the finished product. I the future I would love to see more of your projects and helpful hints.
Jennifer
YOU were the first quilting blog I happened upon:-) I enjoy your blog and your inspiring quilts. So glad you took a leap of faith and courage to start something new. Good for you! I'm happy for your success. Looking forward to the next seven!
Person
Way to go, Champ! Thank you for sharing your anniversary goodness with all the internet people. xo
Donna
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! Doesn't time fly by? I've enjoyed reading your blog since I discovered it some time ago. You always have creative and inspiring things to share. I look forward to reading your blog for many more years!
Dianne
Happy blogiversary! Yours was one of the first quilting blogs I found several years ago, and is one I visit often. I've loved following along on your journey and am always inspired by your spirit and creativity! Thank you for celebrating with us with the awesome giveaways and best wishes for many more years of quilty fun! : )
Bonnie
Happy blogiversary! I love looking at quilts. I've made one and have another one started, and I love to see the patterns and fabrics that other choose. I enjoy your posts a lot!
Chris K.
Congratulations. You have inspired me so much.
Erin
Thanks for the awesome giveaway. I've really enjoyed visiting your blog. Congratulations on your success.
Melissa
Congratulations on seven years! I have only been following for a few, but i'm looking forward to the next 7 🙂
Nena
Congratulations! Best Wishes! Love your blog; you've helped me jump back into sewing and quilting - a good thing!
Jamie
I love your blog and just want to thank you for sharing your time and talent with the rest of us. Congratulations on 7 years.
Ann jambor
Continued best wishes and thank you for the opportunity to win some terrific prizes.
Rita
Congratulations on your 7 years! I love your style!
Maybe a mystery quilt series or a sampler quilt?
Debbie Whitsitt
My daughter got me on to your blog - she has taught me a lot about quilting and sewing. Glad she (and I) found your blog!
Sarah
Yay for 7 years! I haven't been following you from the beginning but it's been several years at least. Here's to a bunch more! Thanks for the chance to win!
jenny
i know you love vintage fabrics/quilts as much as i do...id love to see your vintage storage, or stash, or how you incorporate it into your projects...i need encouragement in this area!! congratulations on 7 awesome years!!
Sophie in WY
Wow! Seven years! I'm impressed - you were one of the very first blogs that I found and I still come back nearly every day to see your updates! Congratulations and thanks for a chance to win!
KEndra L
I just found your site off of pinterest. I am just starting out quilting adventure. I'm a stay at home mom to 2 boys and think that quilting would be a great outlet for me. I am going to pick up my First machine tonight! I would love one of these set to get me started:) I would also love to learn how to convert off the bolt fabric into jellyrolls, layer cakes & charm packs. So I can buy my favorite that way if I would like. Thanks so much for your awesome information!!
Mary Ann
Congrats on the big blogiversary! I really enjoy following along with your creative endeavors!
Amy Lennstrom
Congratulations on 7 years! And thanks for the give-away!
-Amy
Debbie Martinsen
Congratulations on 7 years of blogging! I have several favorite quilter's blogs I read almost every day and your is one of them! Thanks for being such a down-to-earth inspiration! I am a quilting Utah Grandmother of 12 - so you know I need lots of inspiration! Wishing you and your family all the best!
Katherine
I am new to following blogs and I am so glad I found yours, Amy. I am intrigued by the colour choices you make and the marvellous tutorials you provide motivate me to get back to my sewing machine.
Congratulations on 7 years!
Cari
I'm new to quilting, actually sewing in general, so I love your tutorials! Plus your quilts give me tons of inspiration!
Sarah McDaniel
Congrats Amy! I love your blog! I made my first quilt using one of your tutorials, and I've made several quilts using them.
Jenny
I've enjoyed being a follower! The photo of younger you is so darling.
Kristy S
Congratulations and happy anniversary! I am a relatively new follower and have been enjoying your posts for the last few months. Keep up the good work! 🙂
Kathy Luehrs
Congrats - what a great milestone
elisabeth
Congratulations on 7 years Amy - its a great accomplishment and I'm sure I speak for others when I say how much your blog has meant to my quilting life.
As for a suggestion - I always love to see book reviews (especially pattern and design books) so I'll put in a plug for that.
Thanks again!
KIM LAWONN
LOVE YOUR BLOG! CONGRATULATIONS ON SEVEN YEARS! THANKS FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN...
Nicole
Yours was the first quilting blog I ever found, a few years ago. I feel like you are an old friend. You helped me to get started again with my quilting and I have gone in new directions creatively as a result. Thank you for being here! I don't need to see anything new, because I think it's perfect here just as it is. BTW I just checked your latest book out of the library!
Julia
Dear Amy, congratulations for your glorious anniversary. You are my favorite blogger and I love to read your posts. Thanks for celebrating with us! I truly admire You!
Heather
Congratulations on 7 years. It always amazes me how time passes in a mere blink of the eye. Here's to the next 7!!!
Sandra Hubley
I LOVE your blog. I have a "virtual sticky note" on my laptop with a list of blogs/sites. Yours is one I ALWAYS enjoy. Some I skip over but I always come away "uplilfted after having read yours. I think it's because you're "real". Stick with it, it's working great just the way it is. Happy anniversary. Here's to the next seven! Thanks also to your sponsers for the great giveaways!
Joyce Frazier
I LOVE YOUR BLOG AND THE TUTORIALS AND SEEING WHAT YOU ARE MAKING. I WOULD SO LOVE TO WIN ANY OF THE PRIZES. BUT IF I WAS TO WIN THE BUNDLE FROM THE FABRICWORM, WOULD THE PIG COME WITH IT? LOL! AND IF I WIN IT WOULD BE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY PRESENT, MY BIRTHDAY WAS YESTERDAY, OCTOBER 7TH. SO MAYBE I WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK WITH THE NUMBER 7, MY BIRTHDAY ON THE 7TH AND YOUR ANNIVERSARY IN BLOGLAND FOR 6 YEARS. ONE CAN HOPE! IT IS GREAT THAT YOU AND YOUR SPONSORS HAVE PROVIDED SUCH WONDERFUL PRIZES. THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO WIN! ANYTHING SIMPLE AND EASY WOULD BE GREAT ON THE BLOG BUT IT IS FINE WTH WAY IT IS. YOU ARE VERY GENEROUS WITH YOUR TUTORIALS AND I THANK YOU FOR THAT!
TERESA MOORE
Congratulations on seven years. I only read a few blogs and I'm glad I found yours.
Ryan R
I truly adore all of your posts. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one with kiddos under my sewing table and little ones hanging on me as I sew!
Emily
Wow so I have just discovered your page it's so inspiring. I'm really looking forward to reading more of your post. Happy Blog Birthday.
Melissa compston
Happy anniversary. I decided to learn to quilt about three years ago while going through a health crisis with my husband, many sleepless nights, unable to work because I was his main caregiver, so I bought a sewing machine and started watching u tube videos and visiting websites like yours and now three years later I sell one of a kind throws and bags and other accessories. Thanks for the inspiration.
Cecilia
Congratulations on your blogaversary! I enjoy your scrap buster patterns, but I would also like to see some baby quilts. Thank you for the awesome giveaways.
Michele Timms
Congratulations on celebrating seven years of blogging! Wow! I love your tutorials but mostly I love your creative style? Looking forward to more inspiration from you! Thank you!!
Nicole Turner
Loving your blog!
Julia
Congratulations! I'm sorry I never comment (I'm always reading in those tiny bits of busy-mom-life time, like waiting in the parking lot to pick up my kids from school) but I just wanted to say thanks for taking that leap! I like reading your blog because you seem truly genuine, and the stuff you make just makes me happy. It's fun to see what you create! Here's to finding joy in making things!
Melissa
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! I am new to your blog this year and just adore your style. Best regards on many more successful years of inspiring others.
Rachel
I enjoy reading your blog. I always find it inspiring and relatable. I love to see all your beautiful finished quilts and there are always lots of good ideas when I am stuck for inspiration. Keep on blogging! It's a lovely giveaway. Thank you
Donna
Congrats! Thanks so much for sharing and teaching. It's always fun to see what you have come up with next. Thanks so much for taking the time to put away these awesome giveaways.
Joanne in Maryland
This is a good week. My wedding anniversary was Tuesday and my birthday is tomorrow. Congratulations on 7 years of blogging.
Stephanie
I so relate to the imaginary friends concept!
Congrats on 7 years and thanks for the giveaway!
Sharon T
Happy anniversary. I'm so glad you took the plunge! Love your beautiful quilts and inspiration!
Erica
Congratulations on your blog anniversary and all your other accomplishments! I enjoy reading your blog and your quilts are just lovely! I appreciate you sharing so freely of your knowledge and time to give us great ideas and provide lots of eye candy!
janice s
I love looking at you blog, thank you for spending the time on it. I enjoy seeing all of your beautiful creations.. You inspire me.
Jessica
Mom-Blog! I love it! It is so wonderful how the internet has made it possible for fabric lovers to find each other.
Gillian
Congratulations on seven years! I've only been reading for about one, but have spent a lot of time in your archives! Thank you for all the inspiration! Best of luck with all that is to come.
Adrienne
Congratulations on 7 years!!! And thank you for celebrating with us...amazing giveaways! I love tutorials on blogs. The more the merrier!
Sandra
I think you should continue doing what you're doing! As for suggestions for the future--I am always happy to see sewing rooms/areas, storage ideas, and time management tips as they relate to quilting/sewing.
Christine N
Congrats on 7 productive and creative years! Glad we could join you on your quilty journey.
Baa
Congratulations on your anniversary. Wow. What a giveaway. Awesome. Thanks!
Barb
Wow Amy,
I've been reading all these comments for over an hour! It's inspiring to see how many lives you've touched!
The common themes seem to be your positivity, your ability to "keep it real" and your encouragement of others. That's also why I come back to your blog over and over again. I also loved your advice about just jumping in to something that's a bit outside your comfort zone. Every time I've done that, I'm glad that I did. As a matter of fact, I'm on the verge of making a similar life decision right now so that is a very timely reminder. Thank you!
Congrats on your 7 years and thanks for the super generous giveaway!
Linda Sforza
Happy Anniversary - goes to show how a little inspiration can turn into a dream come true! Thanks for great tutorials and easy to follow instructions. Your color choices match my same interests! Here's to many more years to come!
Leslie
Wow COngratulations on 7 years!!! I have to tell you that you were one of the first big quilting blogs that i stumbled on years ago when i realized that there were so many of us quilting out there and using the blogs as a way of connecting and sharing quilt ideas and inspiration. My mind was blown. Since then yours is my go to to find a great tutorial, a clever idea and a amazing pattern to use. Thanks for sharing your experience with me!
Rhonda Gerbaz
I love your blog! You always show us something beautiful and inspiring! I hope you keep it up for a long time! Thanks for the giveaway!
Robin Steinmeyer
Hi Amy, I am a new quilter. I have read your blog off and on this past year. I have enjoyed it. Sewing is stepping out of my comfort zone. I am the cook not the seamstress! My mother sews beautifully. I have found now as an adult that I want to go to the fabric store! Thanks for sharing your story. I am looking forward to being known as a quilter.
Marilyn
Happy Blogiversary! I so enjoy reading your blog and learning new tips from you! Keep up the good work!
Hildy
Congrats to 7 years blog anniversary! One thing I love about your blog are the stories you're telling. I remember the one about a woman who was a refugee from Asia and made an absolutly cute little quilt for you. She had problems to become an US citizien because they could not take her fingerprints. I loved this story:-)
begoodbabe
Congratulations on 7 years! It's an incredible feeling to take a huge risk, and leap, and succeed, isn't it?!
I would love to see a tutorial on how to do cross hatch quilting. How do know what angle to use to start? I understand the straight line quilting part, but the starting part has me baffled.
Thanks for the chance to win.
kcneiman (at) gmail (dot) com
Gayle
Congratulations, and may you continue on!
Kristin
Wow, 7 years! It's awesome that you've kept it up for that long; I hope too...
I've found a few vendors through your blog, so I'm not sure my husband likes your blog ? but I do! Keep it up!
Pat Oster
Happy blog anniversary! Seven years of reaching out and touching a lot of quilters. Thank you!
Janie
Thank you for allowing us into your home for the last 7 years. Congratulations. Your blog is so fresh and upbeat. Thank you for all of the tutorials and tips.
Janet
Thank you for sharing with us, beautiful inspiration and a wonderful read!
L
Thanks for seven years! I'm looking forward to the next 7!
sue
Happy anniversary!! Oh my gosh.. I am so jealous oh your blog and all your creations...can I be you when I grow up ??
A. bouwman
Just visited your blog for the first time, I love it, it is so colorful and makes me happy. Congratulations with your lovely blog.
Heather Bond
Wow! Seven years! I really love all of your quilts and get a ton of inspiration from you. Thanks for sharing! And that picture with the baby feet sticking out under the table is ADORABLE!
Karen E.
Love your site, and patterns. The pics... WOW! I just ordered your Hop Scotch pattern... and thanks for the discount!
Amy
I love everything you do, but mostly I just love you! You are so kind, generous and thoughtful! You deserve every minute of happiness and success you have received. Congrats on seven amazing years!
Helen
Your fabulous fast quilts book is one of my favs! Helped me make my first big quilt. Now I'm off to pick up some of your patterns from my wish list!
Michelle J.
This would be fantastic I am just getting into sewing, so this would be perfect.
marj
I'm fairly new to your blog but I always look forward to seeing each new and exciting post. Thank you for sharing so much of your life and wisdom with us. I always feel like I learn something new and valuable from your posts.
LeAnne L
Your blog is great. I love the tutorials and the eye candy of the quilts and your "life" photos.
Esther Dunn
Congratulation Amy on this milestone!! I so enjoy your blog ...Keep it up another 7 years!!
g.dunn@shaw.ca
Patricia
Just re-started quilting after a couple year 'break' and have found a lot of inspiration and fun ideas from your blog. I am so happy I found you and can be one of your 'imaginary' friends 🙂
Anne K.
I love your blog! I am almost finished with my first ever quilt based on your tutorial. Thank you!
Paula
Thank you for all the great posts! I've been following you for years - keep up the good work! And thank you for the great giveaway!
Rose Santuci-Sofranko
Happy Blogaversary! Congrats and Thanks and God bless!
Mary
Lucky 7!!! Amazing giveaway! Keep doing what you do. Congratulations. Mary
Lizzie in Sweden
Ha! When I opened this post, there were 45 comments, and now well over 900-- great party! Congrats on 7 years! I've been following for 3 or four and I have your book and a fabulous I-Spy pack that you curated (my niece is so lucky!) I love your no-nonsense, steady approach to quilting and blogging. It is very encouraging. I have enjoyed not only the quilting, but the way you share your family trips to historical sites, your reactions to traveling in Europe and seeing Liberty Studios, and the sewing of the neighborhood ladies (Hmong needlework.) Keep going, it's a lovely ride!
Manon jacob
Good job! And keep on doing it! I'm really happy to be one of your imaginary friend!
Marie Bartels
Congratulations whit your beautiful blog! I get a lot of inspiration wen I read your blog. I love the book reviews and hoop to sie moor in the future. Greetings from Holland Marie Bartels
Kathie OKeefe
Congratulations Amy! I am new to your site and I have already compiled a list of items that I want to try. As for a suggestion, I would like to see a few items on making baby goodies like bibs, burpers, hats, etc. I have made a few items by piecing scraps of material together (I use all my scraps to the fullest) to make a nice piece of fabric and then cut the pattern from my piecing.
Thanks for this great blog and I hope you have many more years of success!
Kathie
Kate
Congratulations! Love your blog, always encouraged and inspired.
nan hohenstein
How can I make a suggestion when I already like your blog content. Keep doing what you are doing. Thanks.
Timtirim
Happy anniversary, Amy! I love your blog, your style, it inspires me every time I can read a blog post from you. I wish you all the bests, many-many following seven years so that we can read you. Thank you very much!
Karen
Congratulations on reaching 7 years. That is an achievement to keep your blog going so well and not slowing down. Amazing giveaways from your generous sponsors.
Nancy Owens
I love your voice. I have had limited time for quilting, but blogs like yours encourage me to keep at it. I feel that a day when I actually step into my sewing room for just a few minutes, is a good day. I did a lot of sewing when I was a young mother but didn't start my quilting adventure until I was a grandmother. I can't remember what you said we needed to say to win something, so I'll just say everything looks amazing and I alway love to try to win something, TRY being the operative word. Keep up the great blog. You do an amazing job.
Karen Mitchell
Congrats for hitting the lucky 7 years! I have been a Fig Tree follower for years-- buying random FQs and always dreaming of the perfect quilt to use them in. I have now evolved and buy your bundles, kits, and follow your blog faithfully--- love your creativity, keep it up for many more years!!
Mary Collins
Congrats on 7 years of fabulous. I'm so glad you decided to start this all. You have a fantastic aesthetic and apparently, we're all glad you're here.
Stephanee
As a new quilter your blog has been a wonderful tool! I'm learning so much digging through the archives. Thanks for creating such a fun and informative site!
Megan Strohschein
What a great site and what a terrific accomplishment --- seven years! I am a couple of decades past having my little girls underfoot and working on making their clothes and their dolls' clothes! But my eldest just got married Oct 5 and i am thinking I may be a grandmother next year-- and i can sew little clothes and baby quilts all over again. Thanks so much for your hard work and dedication in sharing your ideas and projects and everything else.
stanleybeagle
Happy blogiversary! Your work is beautiful
Diane B
Amy, What a wonderful story...7 years ...glad you threw caution to the wind and started blogging! You inspire me daily...keep on posting ...I can't think of anything else for you. I hope you're husband has enjoyed meeting (or communicating) w/all your "Imaginary friends" LOL...who are so supportive of you, and the friendships you've made.
Donna
Happy Blogiversary! I enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work.
Anita
Love all your projects, Amy. I find inspiration in your style and encouragement from your creativity. Congrats on 7 years.
Mary V
Happy anniversary! Your work is absolutely beautiful. You are so creative! Thanks for the giveaway!
Chris
Congratulations! Love what you are doing. Thanks for sharing.
DiAnn
7 years is amazing!! Thank you for your blog and amazing tutorials!!! Thank you too for the opportunity to win some awesome gifts!!
DiAnn
Carole m
7 years is awesome! That's about how long ago I stumbled on mom blogs etc. And found it a great pastime with a small infant and no Netflix. Lol. I certainly have moved more into following quilting and craft blogs from mom blogs since then! Congratulations!
HaYley
Happy blogiversary! Your blog was one of the first I discovered and my first baby quilt was using your tutorial! So full circle for you / I know your tutorial is the entry into quilting for many people.
I know what you mean too about the sense of community. My husband calls them my "quilting crazies"
Theresa
Amy thank you for the inspiration and your willingness to share your love of fabric whether your cutting it up, stitching it back together, sewing over the top or just stroking it. You have made me laugh and gasp in awe of beautiful things you've created. I hope I can be even a little bit like you! Keep on keeping on and looking forward to another 7 years worth at the very least! Theresa xx
Ann
Happy Anniversary. I enjoy reading your blog and checking out all your quilting projects.
Marilyn S
Love your website. Keep up the great work.
karen
i'm always glad when great people succeed!! great work these years. we've been blessed by you!!
Anita T.
What a fun giveaway opportunity, thank you.
Claire Ross
Congratulations on your bogiversary. I really enjoy your blog and it gives me inspiration for my own projects x
Jennifer
Congratulations on 7 years! I love your blog. Thanks for the chance to win☺
Alison Van Swearingen
Your blog-iversary is also my birthday! How fun :0) Thank you for sharing with us over the years!
Lori Morton
Happy Happy Anniversary on the 7 year Mark!!! Loooove your Blog...keep doin' what your do best...sharing what you Love!! We all appreciate all your work & care & creativity!! I always feel like I just spent time with a Special friend....Thank you! 🙂
Trudy
Congratulations on 7 fantastic blogging years. Your blog is so inspirational. Keep the creative juices going!
Wanda black
Love your blog - so genuine. It would be fun to see "then" and "now" pictures to see how you have grown as a Quilter.
Eileen Keane
Thank you so much for doing this giveaway. I like your blog just the way it is right now. You're honest and I love your work.
Anne
Thank you for your lovely and wonderful blogpost. I super enjoy them every time. Congrats with your blog birthday and thank you for this lovely giveaway
Jean marie
I love your freshness, your honesty, your creativity, and your patterns! Happy Anniversary, seven years of wonderful inspiration.
Erika
congratulations! sounds like you've had a great 7 years! xx
Mary Baker
Congratulations on 7 years blogging. I really enjoy your blog and inspirations. You are an encouragement to keep trying to juggle family, self and creative endeavors. Really appreciated your response on family friendly activities in SLC. We are coming in Dec/Jan. In terms of what I want to see- keep sewing and sharing! It's really fun!
Denise W
I think you have been on the right track from the beginning. It is a treat to see what you have to say and where you have been. And that all of your quilts are unique, not just cookie cutter designs with a new name. Thanks for sharing!
Amy
Congrats on 7 years!! Amazing!! I am so happy that I discovered your blog - I love all the variety that you talk about, but especially the style in your quilts. Thank you for taking the plunge and sharing your world with us!
Trisch
Congrats! I really enjoy your blog a lot. Keep doing what you have been, it's all good!!! Thanks for the great giveaways!! Also thanks for the discounted PDF patterns. I need to go see what I can't live without!! Thanks again.
Andrea
I love how inspired I am after checking in on your blog and I appreciate how you always keep it real. No fluff. Thank you, it's refreshing! Keep posting all the British theme-y things....never get enough reminders of the place I love & miss so much. Cheers!!!! x
DoInna
Here's to the next 7 years. You have a wonderful blog. You make me feel like one of the family it's so warm and friendly. Your ideas are great and fun. Keep up the great work.
lYNNETTE
Love your site! Congratulations! Keep the awesome projects and patterns coming! Thanks for the awesome opportunity to win cool stuff!
Denise
I discovered quilt blogs 4 or 5 years ago. Yours is one of my favorites. Congratulations on 7 years!
Denise
Here is to another 7 years! Love your blog!
Jilian
I wish I had found your blog 7 years ago--I still have a lot of catching up to do! Your projects are always stunning. I hope that someday I have the skill and confidence to match fabrics as beautifully as you do!
Gail
Thank you for the inspiration to quilt. I am a new quilter, yet have been sewing for years. I love your designs and the fabric choices you use. I wish you many more years of fun, quilting!
Shaun
I'm so glad you took the plunge into blogging, I have gotten so much inspiration from your quilts and posts! I would love to see more technique tutorials. Looking forward to many more quilts and posts!
P.S. Love the hiking pictures.
Kim a
Just recently found your blog and I love it. I have just rediscovered my love of quilting this year when I was making my third grandchild a baby quilt. That was in March. Since then I have finished 4 more quilts and am working on a fifth (3 for Christmas presents, one a baby shower gift and one for me). Would love to win something to add to my quilting "collection".
Jude jones
I love your blog just the way it is! You're amazing...keep up the good work!
Janice
Congratulations! Your blog is awesome ... Inspired me to start quilting. Keep sharing your projects to inspire us. You really have a great eye for color.
Vicki in MN
Amy, I just love visiting your blog to see what you are working on, I have now signed up by email to follow you.
Geoff
I would not be much of a quilter if not for all the awesome quilting blogs out there.
Thanks for the fantastic giveaway
JeanneMc
I love your blog, you have such great style. I'm so glad you took the plunge! I personally would love to see more small projects--while I love making full size quilts, as a full time work-outside-the-home mom it's satisfying to be able to complete an entire project in one sitting.
Carrie Derrick
Hi Amy! I've been making quilts and following your blog since 2009. I bought some fabrics from you to make a baptism quilt for my daughter in 2010. It turned out so lovely and now I'm just finishing up the baptism quilt for my youngest daughter who turned eight recently. I love your laid back style and easy tutorials! Thank you for all your blog posts, they really do help quilting "wanna-be's" like me!
erica p
I have enjoyed your blog so much! Great inspiration. Thank you for all your hard work.
Allison mcclymont
I love your website and style of quilting! Would love to win one of the fabulous prizes!
daniels
Love your blog. Feliz 7mo aniversario from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Deb J
Wow! What a pile of giveaways! I love visiting your blog for inspiration! And I admire how you can work with such a variety of fabrics - I tend to stick with my favourites!
Amanda
I love the blog. Thanks so much for sharing your awesome sponsors and gorgeous fabrics and most importantly tips for making our own projects.
Susie Sunshine
I learned to quilt almost entirely from blogs and online videos. Your tutorials were inspirational and motivational, so i say more of what you've been doing would be just fine!!
Thanks so much for sharing your time and talents with the rest of us!
Annette
Congratulations! I love your blog!
Beth
Thank you for all of the wonderful years of inspiration. I love checking out your blog and seeing the beautiful color combinations. I love color!
Denise Nash
So fun to see your latest projects! Such pretty colors and great designs. And, oh I love the mountain trail photos! Am looking for a good photo to choose to make into an art quilt for a workshop this weekend. But I shall keep looking for some of my nice photos.
Marin
Just discovered your blog and have already been inspired to try one of your tutorials. Thank you.
Diane Woodward
Did anyone else realize the irony of "fall break"? You need to stop taking things so literally. 🙂
Amy Smart
Hahah! Yeah. No more Fall Breaks, please.